Civilian Education: LTC Pickett was raised as an Army Brat throughout Germany and the Southern states. He received his Bachelor of Arts in History and was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant from Western Kentucky University (WKU) in 1985. He received his Master’s in Education and Administration from Western Illinois University in 2002.
Military Education: LTC Pickett is a graduate of the Infantry Officers basic and Advanced Course, Transportation Officers Advanced Course and Civil Affairs Officers Advanced Course. He also graduated from the Combined Arms and Services School, and the U.S. Army Command and General Staff Courses at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
Military Assignments:
His assignments include Infantry Platoon Leader and Battalion Assistant
Operations Officer, 3rd Battalion, 8th Infantry Division (Mechanized) in
Germany. Company Commander and Battalion Assistant Operations Officer,
2nd Battalion, 187th Infantry regiment (Rakkasans), 101st Airborne Division
(Air Assault). He also served as an Assistant Professor of Military
Science at Washington University in St. Louis, MO. Recently he served
as the Civil Affairs Liaison Officer in Baghdad, Iraq during Operation
Iraqi Freedom.