Brigadier General Chrosniak enlisted in the Regular Army in August 1965, served as a Military Policeman, and was later commissioned a Second Lieutenant from Officer Candidate School where he continued to serve in a series of command and staff assignments including Artillery, Military Police, Chemical, Quartermaster and Combat Engineer. Upon his return from Vietnam in 1968, he continued to serve in the Army Reserve, followed by service in the Army National where he later returned to active-duty status till retirement in 1998 while on the faculty of the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle Barracks, PA. He has a total of 37 years of military service.
General Chrosniak remained at Carlisle Barracks as a civilian Faculty Instructor within the Army War College Center for Strategic Leadership until he was recalled to active duty after 9/11 serving two years on the Joint Chiefs of Staff to assist in writing the National Military Strategic Plan for the War on Terror, and additionally assisting in standing up NORTHCOM. He then went on to serve several months in Iraq initially as the Chief of Staff for Strategy, Plans and Assessments at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, and later as Commander of Forward Operating Base Abu Ghraib and Detention Facility.
After Iraq, he returned to Army War College Faculty duties when, after one year, he was once again recalled to active duty as Vice Chief of Staff of the Army Asymmetric Warfare Group in the Pentagon Army Operations Center for two additional years until his return to Carlisle in August 2008.
His significant awards include the Defense Superior Service Medal, Legion of Merit, Bronze Star Medal, Good Conduct Medal, and Combat Action Badge. He holds a Master of Arts in Secondary Education from Saint Bonaventure University and is a graduate of the Army War College.
He remains heavily engaged in many organizations including President of EMPact America; Vice Chairman of the American Leadership Policy Foundation; Vice President of the Central Pennsylvania FBI INFRAgard; Active Firefighter with Carlisle Fire and Rescue; and Vice President of Carlisle Cumberland-Goodwill Ambulance Company.
