Leon Collins

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  www.diverseeducation.com/artman/publish/article_9078.sh - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 8/14/2007    Last Visited: 11/30/2007  

  Collins to Workers Comp Commission
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  Leon Collins to the Workers Compensation Commission.
  
  Collins will serve an unexpired term that ends Dec. 31, 2008.
  
  "Gen. Collins has an extensive background in management experience, including an impressive military resume that demonstrates his leadership abilities," Barbour said in a statement."His business qualifications along with his service in a variety of community organizations will help him in his work on this important commission."
  
  The commission enforces the Mississippi Workers Compensation Law.
  
  Collins, a Booneville native who now lives in Jackson, became the first black general in the Mississippi National Guard when he was promoted in 2005.He also spent a year in Iraq as commander of the 155th Brigade Combat Team, which was made up of nearly 3,500 Mississippians and other soldiers from across the country.
  
  The 155th was the largest contingent of Mississippi Guard troops to deploy to a war zone since World War II.The soldiers spent most of 2005 in Iraq.
  
  Barbour said Collins will retire from the military, where he has worked as director of mobilization of the United States Army Forces Command in Fort McPherson, Ga., since February 2006.
  
  Collins has a bachelors degree in business administration from the University of Mississippi and a masters degree in business administration from Jackson State University.
  
  He graduated with a masters degree in strategic studies from the United States Army War College in 2000.

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  Barbour names Collins to MWCC
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  Leon Collins, a native of Booneville, to the Mississippi Workers' Compensation Commission (MWCC) for an unexpired term ending December 31, 2008.
  
  Collins will be retiring from his career in the U.S. military, where he has worked as director of mobilization of the U.S. Army Forces Command in Fort McPherson, Ga., since February 2006.Additionally, Collins spent one year in Iraq as commander of the 155th Brigade Combat Team, and previously served as the Mississippi National Guard's director of personnel.
  
  Within his community, Collins served as the 2004 president of the Central Jackson Soccer Organization and was a member of the New Hope Christian School board of directors.He is the 2006 recipient of the Mississippi "Trailblazer of the Year" award and has been commended by the Mississippi Legislature through Senate Concurrent Resolution Nos.506 and 557 and House Resolution No. 1.Collins earned the Minuteman Award from the National Guard Bureau and is an inductee to the Officer Candidate School Hall of Fame.
  
  Collins holds a bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of Mississippi and a master's degree in business administration from Jackson State University.He graduated with a master's degree in strategic studies from the U.S. Army War College in 2000.
  
  Collins currently resides in Jackson.

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  AP Wire | 02/27/2005 | Equipment missing from Camp... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 2/27/2005    Last Visited: 2/28/2005  

  Leon Collins, brigade commander, said.
  
  Spc. Ernest Leon Minor, 20, of Meridian, was arrested Dec. 24 after three of the missing guns were found in an off-base house.

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  A. Leon CollinsPresident leon.collins@ms.ngb.army.milP: 601-981-1753

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  Published on: 2/3/2006    Last Visited: 2/3/2006  

  Leon Collins, brigade commander, said last week.
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  However, detachments or companies are located at Bay St. Louis, Biloxi, Camp Shelby, Collins, Lucedale, McComb, Poplarville, Prentiss and Tylertown.
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  "This is going to be pretty good," Collins said.

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  Published on: 1/30/2006    Last Visited: 1/30/2006  

  "He said he would fight with Leon Collins any time, any place in the world," Cross said of Johnson.
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  Collins said the 155th "is a testament to the total force concept."
  
  "It's all the things that the leaders at the three- and four-star level talk about - the modularity, the flexibility and the total force concept, being able to mix and match units from different components," he said.
  
  "Being a National Guard unit, there's always some skepticism about whether or not we could actually do the job we've been training for.There's absolutely no doubt in my mind or the minds of any of the senior officials we reported to in Iraq that these guys could do the job and did it well."
  
  Collins shies away from talking about being the first black general in the Mississippi National Guard.
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  "Leon knows and all the rest of us know this decision wasn't made on race," Cross said.
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  Leon Collins, commander of the 155th Brigade Combat Team, which recently returned from a year's deployment in Iraq.
  
  Brig. Gen.Leon Collins

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  Published on: 1/16/2006    Last Visited: 1/16/2006  

  Leon Collins, brigade commander, is expected to arrive Monday.

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  Honing reflexes at Shelby - hattiesburgamerican.com - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 11/8/2004    Last Visited: 11/9/2004  

  Leon Collins, brigade commander.
  
  "The difficult part is there are people who don't want us there and don't want peace," he said.
  
  Elements of the brigade begin leaving this week for the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, Calif., where the skills taught at Camp Shelby will be tested during two weeks of desert warfare training.
  
  "It will be kind of a culmination of what we've done here," Collins said.

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  Local News - Hattiesburg American -... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 12/22/2004    Last Visited: 12/22/2004  

  Leon Collins, brigade commander.

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  Leon Collins, brigade commander, said last week.

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