ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. — Chief Warrant Officer 5 Linc McCoy became intrigued when he received his most recent assignment as the Command Chief Warrant Officer of the U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command at APG.
Throughout his 26-year career in the Army, he has served in various operational and staff assignments around the world, including serving the Office of the White House and the Secretary of Defense. He also is a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation New Dawn. But he had been unfamiliar with CECOM and what it does.
As a fan of change, McCoy is excited for the next stage of his career, at CECOM, which began earlier this month.
“We always hear about CECOM, but I didn’t know what the mission was, and now I’m here to actually be part of the mission,” he said. “You can always hear what certain organizations are about, but you really don’t know what they are about until you get into the nitty gritty about what they do and try to help the organization forward.”
In his new role, McCoy supports the CECOM mission to provide life cycle management support and expertise for Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance systems, as well as logistics, business, and enterprise systems, that enable warfighter superiority and information dominance from the sustaining base to the battlefield.
McCoy is looking forward to using his technical field experience to advise the CECOM commanding general and other leadership, civilians and contractors throughout the command on defense cyber operations. He said he wants to be someone people can reach out to him as counsel to provide insight.
As one of 33 CW5s in the signal regiment, he is also responsible for mentoring and oversight of the commands warrant officers who support the C5ISR community, which is an aspect of the job he said he is looking forward to. He said it’s his calling to serve others.
“It’s one of my biggest responsibilities,” he said. “I’m here to definitely do that.”
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