EL PASO, Texas – Lt. Col. Mario Chaparro formally retired Dec. 6 after 28 years of service at the Armed Forces Reserve Center here.
Retired Maj. Gen. Kenneth Nava, former Adjutant General of New Mexico, presided over the ceremony.
As a lieutenant colonel, Nava commanded the 515th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion during its deployment to Iraq from 2009 to 2010.
Chaparro served first as the battalion’s Signal Officer (S-6) and later Intelligence Officer (S-2) in Iraq.…