Col Jerome C. Greco

About

Colonel Jerome Greco, national security affairs fellow for the academic year 2024–25, is a career infantry officer in the Marine Corps. Outside of the Fleet Marine Forces, he has served as a Middle East foreign area officer, a policy advisor at Headquarters Marine Corps, a foreign security force advisor in the United Arab Emirates, and commanding officer of Marine Corps recruiting for the upper Midwest. 

Over his twenty-one-year career, he has served in a variety of command and staff billets, leading infantry units as a platoon commander, company commander, and battalion commander.  He has deployed six times: twice to Iraq, twice to Afghanistan, and twice to the Western Pacific.

Greco was commissioned through the University of Pennsylvania’s Reserve Officer Training Corps. He is a graduate of the Marine Corps Command and Staff College and the Naval Postgraduate School and was an MIT Seminar XXI Fellow.  As a national security affairs fellow, he intends to research innovation and change leadership in the military.

Greco’s personal decorations include the Bronze Star Medal with combat “V,” the Meritorious Service Medal (four times), the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal, the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal with combat “V,” the Combat Action Ribbon, and the Recruiting Ribbon.