FORT RILEY, Kan. – The “Big Red One” will welcome three new leaders to the team with a Victory with Honors ceremony at 3 p.m. July 21 at the 1st
Infantry Division’s headquarters building.

Brig. Gen. William A. Turner, Col. Scott Efflandt and Col. Charles Masaracchia will be welcomed as the division’s new deputy commanding general, deputy commanding officer and chief of staff, respectively.

Turner most recently served as commandant of the United States Army Field Artillery School, United States Army Fires Center of Excellence, at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, beginning in June 2014. He previously served with the Big Red One as commander of Battery B, 6th Field Artillery Regiment, 1st Infantry Division (Mechanized) Artillery, from December 1991 to August 1993 and as current operations officer for the DIVARTY from January to December 1991.

Efflandt most recently served as executive officer to the commander of the
U.S. Army Forces Command from July 2015 to July 2016. He also served as
chief of the programs division in the Office of the Chief Legislative
Liaison at the Pentagon.

Masaracchia led the 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division,
at Fort Bliss, Texas, from July 2014 to June 2016. Prior to that assignment,
the colonel served as the assistant chief of staff for the 82nd Airborne
Division.