“I appreciate the opportunity of being selected for the position of deputy director,” Davis said in a recent interview with the Georgian National Guard Public Affairs Office. “This assignment provides me the opportunity to streamline and improve the human resource processes at the national level.

“It also allows me assist human resource officers throughout the United States and its territories” he said. “I look forward to working on the NGB Joint Staff with Lt. Gen. Blum and Mr. Stine.”

Davis said he will “truly miss my HRO family and other friends in the Georgia Guard who have made a difference in my life.”

Davis, a 37-year military veteran, has been the Georgia Department of Defense director of human resources since October 1996. Under his leadership, the Georgia DoD was awarded the nation’s first Diversity Excellence Award in 2002. Davis and other DoD officials were presented the award by NGB representatives. This recognition is one of the National Guard’s highest honors in the human relations field, and it represents the Georgia National Guard’s focus on its people.

Davis has been instrumental in overseeing all human resources and manpower issues relating to the formation of the 116th Air Control Wing, the first combined Guard and active-duty wing in the Air Force.

He began his military career in January 1966 when he enlisted and was assigned to Marietta's 116th Military Airlift Group. Davis was commissioned as a first lieutenant in 1978 and later became a personnel officer, serving in a variety of positions in the human resources directorate. He commanded the 116th Fighter Wing Mission Support Squadron for three years during which time the unit received the Outstanding Unit Award.

During the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games in Atlanta, Davis was the military venue commander at the Georgia Dome. During that mission, he commanded more than 200 troops.