Timothy R. Coffin

Timothy R. Coffin

Allegiance	United States
Service/branch	United States Army
Years of service	1981–present
Rank	Brigadier general
Commands held	White Sands Missile Range 1st Space Brigade 1st Space Battalion 62nd Supply and Services Company
Battles/wars	Operation Enduring Freedom
Awards	Defense Superior Service Medal Legion of Merit (3) Defense Meritorious Service Medal Meritorious Service Medal (4)

Timothy R. Coffin is a United States Army brigadier general who became the 33rd Commanding General of the White Sands Missile Range on 2 July 2014.

A graduate of Wheaton College, which he attended on an Army Reserve Officer Training Corps scholarship, Coffin was commissioned as an officer in the Quartermaster Corps in December 1981. He was the group supply maintenance officer and logistics plans officer at Army Special Operations Forces Europe from 1982 to 1985. He was watch commander at the United States Space Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command from 1996 to 1999, when he joined the United States Army Space and Missile Defense Command (USASMDC) staff as the G-4 (Logistics Officer) . He subsequently became commander of the 1st Space Battalion. He was deployed to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom as chief of the U.S. Strategic Command Forward Integration Team, Kandahar Air Field, from July 2010 to January 2011, and was Deputy Commanding General for Operations of USASMDC from 2011 to 2014.

Timothy R. Coffin attended Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois, from 1977 to 1981 on a four-year Army Reserve Officer Training Corps scholarship, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in Communications. He was commissioned as an officer in the Quartermaster Corps in December 1981. He completed the Officer Basic Course, and was posted to Bad Toelz, Germany, where he served as the group supply maintenance officer and logistics plans officer at Army Special Operations Forces Europe from 1982 to 1985.