CPT Frank C. Ofner

CPT Frank Christopher Ofner is the Center of Military History’s U.S. Army Reserve “Scholar in Residence” at the United States Military Academy. He received his commission through ROTC in 2013 after serving as an SMP Cadet in the New Jersey Army National Guard. 

CPT Ofner has held a variety of roles at the strategic and tactical levels. He was the Battalion S2 of the 404th Civil Affairs Battalion (Airborne), Fort Dix, NJ, from 2014-18. After this assignment, CPT Ofner served as a Counterintelligence Officer for EUCOM ARE DET 6 out of Fort George Meade, MD, and was then selected to become J2X Deputy Section Chief. 

Most recently from 2024-25, CPT Ofner was the OIC of the 311th Military History Detachment during a mobilization in support of USAREUR-AF Operation European Assure Deter and Reinforce in Poland and Latvia.