Stephen Maranian
Retired U.S. Army Major General / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Stephen J. Maranian is a retired major general who served in the United States Army from 1998-2023. Commissioned as a Field Artillery officer, Maranian served continuously on active duty, commanding from the platoon to the two-star level. In his final assignment he served as commanding general of the 56th Artillery Command in Mainz-Kastel, Germany from 2021-2023. Maranian served in combat deployments in Afghanistan and Iraq and more than half of his career was spent overseas. Maranian holds two master's degrees and is a graduate of both the United States Army Command and General Staff College and the United States Army War College; he has also graduated from the NATO Defense College and the Defense Language Institute.
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His other General Officer commands included serving as commandant of the United States Army War College from July 2020 to August 2021, and as commandant of the United States Army Field Artillery School from June 2016 to May 2018 while dual-hatted as director of the Long Range Precision Fires Cross-Functional Team from October 2017 to May 2018. Other assignments as a General Officer included serving as the deputy commanding general of the 2nd Infantry Division in South Korea from May 2018 to May 2019 and as the deputy commanding general for education of the United States Army Combined Arms Center, provost of the Army University, and deputy commandant of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College from June 2019 to July 2020.
In August 2021, Maranian was selected to activate and command the 56th Artillery Command in Mainz-Kastel, Germany. The 56th Artillery Command is the U.S. Army’s only Theater Fires Command and as such it is the senior Field Artillery command in the European/African areas of responsibility. Maranian activated the 56th in a ceremony held on November 8, 2021.[3]