FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
 
Contact: Julie Germany, President
Army Heritage Center Foundation
717-258-1102
president@armyheritage.org
 
 
Army Heritage Center Foundation Welcomes Four
New Board Members
 
(CARLISLE, PA) Nov. 10, 2026  – Army Heritage Center Foundation President Julie Germany announced today that Darryl R. Hamm (CW5, US Army, Ret.) of Harrisburg and three other accomplished leaders have been chosen to join the Carlisle, Pa.-based foundation's board of directors.

Hamm brings more than 45 years of experience in manpower analysis, general administration, training and logistics management, labor relations, and human resource management in military, federal civilian, state, and corporate settings. He served in the Pennsylvania National Guard and has worked as both a Labor Relations Officer and a Human Resources Officer.

In his business and nonprofit work, Hamm has served as Chairman of the Board of Keystone Service Systems and Vice President of the Architects Licensure Board. He has also served on the boards of Veterans Outreach of Pennsylvania and Pennsylvania Wounded Warriors, Inc. He taught at Central Penn College, Penn State Harrisburg, and Eastern University.

He also holds the unique distinction of being the first Command Chief Warrant Officer of the Pennsylvania National Guard. He is a member and past president of Harrisburg Chapter # 76 National Sojourners, Past Commander of York Camp Heroes of '76 and a member of the National Committee of "33"

Three additional members were chosen for the board, including the following:

• Kimberly R. Lucas is a real estate partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Kirkland & Ellis. She advises clients on all aspects of commercial real estate in equity and debt transactions. Her clients include global private equity funds and their portfolio companies, investment funds, real estate investment trusts (REITs), and institutional lenders. Lucas maintains an active pro bono practice, representing clients in asylum cases and Violence Against Women Act petitions in partnership with organizations including Sanctuary for Families, the Whitman-Walker Clinic, Immigration Equality, New York Legal Assistance Group, and Human Rights First. She holds a JD from Harvard Law School and a BA from Swarthmore College.

• Brigadier General (USA, Ret.) Alison Martin has more than 30 years of service in the U.S. Army and recently retired as a Brigadier General. Her career includes roles as a line officer, a prosecutor, an appellate court judge, and in legal leadership positions across the Army. Her culminating assignment was as the Commanding General, The Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School. Alison is proud to be an Army brat, raised on military installations around the country. She attended high school in Northern Virginia and graduated from The Pennsylvania State University with a Bachelor of Science in Business. She earned her JD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, an LLM from The Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School in Charlottesville, and a master’s degree in National Security Strategy from the National War College.

• Dr. John Nagl is the General John J. Pershing Chair of Military Planning and Operations at the U.S. Army War College and a Professorial Lecturer at George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1988 as a Distinguished Graduate and served 20 years as an armor officer. He led a tank platoon in Operation Desert Storm. In Operation Iraqi Freedom, he served as operations officer of a tank battalion task force and earned the Combat Action Badge and the Bronze Star Medal. His final assignment was commanding the 1st Battalion, 34th Armor at Fort Riley, Kansas, which trained Transition Teams to embed with Iraqi and Afghan units. Dr. Nagl is a former President of the Center for a New American Security and now serves on its Board of Advisors. He is the author of Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam and was on the writing team for the U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual.

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