FUTURES AMERICA - Key Persons

Rex Wamsley wasn't the basis for Tom Clancy's most celebrated character, Jack Ryan, but they are kindred spirits. Having spent over forty years in the military, and state and federal emergency management, Rex is a Founding Member of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, where he served as the Director of Plans and National Continuity of Operations for the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Office of National Security Coordination and National Continuity Programs in Washington, DC from 2002 until his retirement in 2010. A graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Rex spent over twenty-six years in the military commanding and supporting operations in the U.S., Europe, Middle East, Balkans, East and South Asia, Africa, and Central America. As the Commander of the U.S. Army's Operations Group Delta, Battle Command Training Team, he was responsible for training, assessing, and deploying with the military's Joint Task Forces, the largest, all-service combat organizations in our nation's arsenal. He now lives with his wife, Cindy, on one of their farms in Nebraska, raising corn, soybeans, and Charolais cattle.