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Executive Staff
- Colonel George W. Aldridge (USA, Ret.)
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- Major
General Gary Harrell (USA, Ret.)
- Master
Sergeant Norman Hooten (USA, Ret.)
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Colonel George W. Aldridge (USA, Ret), ViaGlobal President
George Aldridge develops and executes the company’s strategic plans, advances ViaGlobal’s mission and objectives, and enables the organization’s growth. He provides ViaGlobal with leadership in the development and expansion of new enterprise business efforts, current program expansion, client relations, quality assurance, and market analysis in both domestic and international markets.
Prior to joining ViaGlobal Group, George served for 30 years as a US Army Infantry officer serving in a number of command and senior staff assignments. These assignments included the command of Infantry and Armor Company, Battalion and Brigade organizations and senior staff positions to include Chief of the War Plans Division on the Chairman of the Joint Chief’s Staff and Chief of Staff of First US Army.
Since retiring from the Army, George has been a senior business executive with the Coca-Cola Company and IMI Cornelius. In both companies, George was responsible for global strategic direction, corporate execution, and business growth.
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Major General Gary Harrell (USA,
Ret.)
Gary Harrell, Director General,
retired as a Major General and the Deputy Chief of Staff
Operations / Commander, Allied Joint Force Command-Brunssum
Deployable Joint Task Force, North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Response Force, Brunssum, The Netherlands. He has served
the U.S. Army for 34 years. During his distinguished
career, General Harrell has served as Commander, Special
Operations Command Central; Director, U.S. Central Command;
Commander, 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta
(SFOD); Deputy Commander, SFOD; Squadron Commander special
operations officer and troop commander, SFOD; as well
as a member of the 82nd Airborne Division. General Harrell
has distinguished himself in the military’s most
elite and clandestine combat units.
Harrell helped rescue U.S. hostage
Kurt Muse from a Panamanian jail in 1989, and hunted
down Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar. He searched
for mobile Iraqi Scud missile launchers in the first
Persian Gulf War in 1991, was a commander during the
1993 battle of Mogadishu immortalized in the book and
movie “Black Hawk Down,” and led perhaps
the largest special operations force in U.S. history
into combat in Iraq. During his career he participated
in several major operations, to include Operation Anaconda,
Operation Urgent Fury, Operation Just Cause, Operations
Desert Shield and Storm, Operation Continue Hope, Operation
Enduring Freedom, and Operation Iraqi Freedom. General
Harrell has served his nation with honor in the Middle
East as well as around the world. His decorations include
the Army Commendation Medal (Oak Leaf Clusters); Air
Medal; Meritorious Service Medal (Oak Leaf Cluster);
Defense Meritorious Service Medal; Purple Heart, Bronze
Star Medal (Oak Leaf Cluster); Bronze Star Medal (w/
“V” Device); Defense Superior Service Medal
(Oak Leaf Cluster); and the Defense Distinguished Service
Medal.
Command Experience:
- Special Forces Detachment
Commander, 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment
-Delta (Delta Force) Troop and Squadron Commander
- Commander, Special Operations
Command Central
- Deputy Chief of Staff Operations/Commander,
Allied Joint Force Command
Service Experience:
- Director, Joint Security
Directorate, United States Central Command
Combat Experience:
- Grenada, Panama, Desert Shield/Storm,
Somalia, Iraq, Afghanistan
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Master Sergeant Norman Hooten (USA,
Ret.)
Norman Hooten is a member
of the ViaGlobal Group Executive Strategy Board and
the Deputy Director of the King Abdullah II Special
Operations Training Center in Amman, Jordan. In this
position, he leads a global center of excellence for
counter-terrorism training, specializing in the security,
education, training, and employment of global security
forces.
Prior to joining ViaGlobal Group,
Norman served as the National Supervisory Training Coordinator
for advance tactical teams of the Federal Air Marshal
Service. With more than twenty years of experience in
training Military Special Operations and Law Enforcement
personnel, Norm has served as a training and tactics
consultant for several other agencies and corporations.
Norm’s fourteen years of
experience in Counter Terrorist Operations while assigned
to the U.S. Army’s 1st Special Forces Operational
Detachment Delta (1st SFOD-D) provide him with an extensive
depth and breadth of experience. He served as 1st SFOD-D
Troop Sergeant Major, Senior Marksmanship Instructor,
Lead Martial Arts Instructor, Assault Team Leader, Military
Freefall Jumpmaster, and Master Breacher. Norm also
served as a team leader with Task Force Ranger in Mogadishu
Somalia in 1993 and was awarded the Bronze Star for
valor. His expertise while employed by the Science Applications
International Corporation (SAIC) was instrumental in
the rapid expansion and transformation of the Federal
Air Marshal Service (FAMS) after the terrorist attacks
of September 11, 2001. He personally supervised training
for more than 1500 Federal Air Marshals. His assistance
led to the development of FAMS tactics for us on a wide
variety of aircraft in various configurations for both
domestic and international flight operations.
Command Experience:
- Troop Sergeant Major, 1st
Special Forces Operational Detachment- Delta (Delta
Force)
- Training Coordinator Supervisor,
Federal Air Marshal
Service Experience
- 5th Special Forces Group
(Airborne)
- 1st Special Forces Operational
Detachment- Delta (Delta Force)
School House:
- Trained Jordanian 71st CT;
25- country Op & Training Experience
- Senior Instructor, Federal
Air Marshal
- Senior marksmanship and hand
to hand instructor, Operator Training Course (1st
SFOD-d)
Combat Experience:
- Operation Just Cause, Panama,
Operation Restore Hope, Somalia, Lebanon, Bosnia
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