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Current Appointments WWIA Board Member
Arthur Kandarian

Art Kandarian is a US Army Veteran with over 27 years of active-duty service with the United States Army as an Infantry Officer in Airborne, Air Assault, Ranger and Special Operations units. He led platoons and commanded companies; a battalion and he also commanded the 2nd Brigade Combat Team of the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault). He led the Brigade, known as Combined Task Force Strike during the President’s surge into Afghanistan from 2010-2011. Combine Task Force Strike earned the Presidential Unit Citation and Valorous Unit award for exceptional gallantry in action in a decisive fight.
Art’s last assignment in the Army was as the Chief of Staff for the Special Operations Joint Task Force / NATO Special Operations Component Command - Afghanistan.

Over the course of his military career, he deployed on eight combat deployments to Panama, Haiti, Iraq and Afghanistan and is a Silver Star Recipient. In 2020, Art was honored to be inducted into the Ranger Hall of Fame (https://rangermemorial.org/ranger-hall-of-fame), which acknowledges and safeguards the contributions of America's most distinguished Rangers.

After retiring from the US Army, he worked as the Senior Vice President for Business Development for two years with Combined Insurance, a Chubb Company in Chicago, Illinois. Art then worked as the Senior Director of Supply Chain, then as Vice President of Operations for APR Energy, a global fast track power company in Jacksonville, Florida.
He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in East Asian Studies from Washington and Lee University and a Master of Science degree in Strategic Studies from the Air War College.

Art has been on the Board of Directors for the Wounded Warriors in Action Foundation since 2007 and is an active supporter, avid outdoorsman and woodsman. “Some of the wounded Soldiers who served under my command have been served by the WWIAF as part of their healing and I know this foundation has helped them. I believe strongly in the foundation’s mission to Honor, Connect and Heal!”