A native of Greenville recently assumed command of the Fort Campbell Warrior Transition Battalion during a change of command ceremony on post. Lt. Col. Heath Holt relieved Lt. Col. Shawn Butler last week in leading a team of soldiers and civilian employees responsible for providing personalized support and care to wounded, ill and injured service members.
According to Fort Campbell officials, Holt grew up in Greenville in Muhlenberg County and graduated from Centre College in Danville with a degree in History. After he graduated in 2001, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Army’s Medical Service Crops and assigned to Fort Campbell as a medical platoon leader with the 2nd Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division. Holt later attended and graduated flight school at Fort Rucker, Alabama, and transferred to the Army’s aviation branch. He returned to Fort Campbell where he served as a flight platoon leader, 50th Medical Company, Air Ambulance.
Army officials say Holt comes to the Warrior Transition Battalion from the Department of the Army Staff, Deputy Chief of Staff G-8 for Aviation Force Development. He has multiple deployments starting in 2002 and most recently in 2014 to 2015 when he served as the executive officer of a general support aviation task force deployed to Liberia in support of Operation United Assistance.
Fort Campbell Warrior Transition Battalion is one of ten units Army-wide that provide mission command, medical management assistance and transition assistance to wounded, ill and injured soldiers requiring six months or more of rehabilitative care and complex medical management.
