A Virginia native, Col Moye received his commission upon completion of Officer Candidate School in August 1999. He has a B.S. in Criminal Justice from Appalachian State University.
As a company grade officer, his operational assignments include: Platoon Commander and Assistant Operations Officer, 2nd Transportation Support Battalion; Detachment Commander and Special Operations Task Force Liaison Officer, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM and JOINT TASK FORCE LIBERIA); Logistics Officer and Amphibious Assault Vehicle Reconstitution Officer-in-Charge, 2nd Assault Amphibian Battalion (OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM); Embedded Tactical Trainer, Border Transition Team 3 (OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM); Company Commander and Mobile Training Team Officer in Charge, Combat Logistics Battalion 2 (OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM).
As a field grade officer, his operational assignments include: Planner and Third Location Decompression Officer-in-Charge, Marine Forces Special Operations Command; Planner, Command Engineer, and Operational Planning Team Lead, Special Operations Joint Task Force/NATO Special Operations Component Command – Afghanistan (OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM); Commanding Officer, Combat Logistics Battalion 2 (EXERCISE TRIDENT JUNCTURE).
His Marine Corps supporting establishment assignments include: Assistant Officer-in-Charge, MV-22 Fleet Introduction Team, Deputy Commandant for Aviation; Installations Program Development Officer, Installations and Logistics Department (DC I&L), Headquarters Marine Corps.
His joint duties include: Planner and Commander’s Action Group Member, United States Special Operations Command; Planner, Transregional Threats Coordination Cell, Joint Staff J5.
His professional military education includes: Expeditionary Warfare School (Distance Education), Marine Corps Command and Staff (Distance Education and Resident Masters Program), Joint and Combined Warfare School, and Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (Resident Masters in Public Policy with a Strategic Studies Concentration). Col Moye also served as the Commandant’s Executive Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).
Col Moye served as the Senior Military Advisor to the Under Secretary of the Navy for two years before assuming his current position as Chief of Staff for Marine Corps Installations Command.