Iraq War Dana James Hillian Pittard[1] (born March 11, 1959)[2][3] is a retired United States Army general officer.

[7] Pittard was deputy commanding general of operations (DCG-O) for ARCENT, the United States Central Command/Third Army, based in Kuwait, until 2015.

[11] A graduate of Eastwood High School in El Paso, Texas, Pittard had previously lived at Fort Bliss as a boy, a station he was later to command.

In April 1990, he commanded D Company, 1-37 Armor at Vilseck, Germany, and led his unit in combat in Iraq during Operation Desert Storm.

Pittard took command of 3rd Brigade, 1st Infantry Division (3/1 ID) in July 2002 and led the unit on deployments to Kosovo (2002–2003) and to combat in Iraq (2004–2005).

[8] In 2014, Pittard became the Joint Forces Land Component Command-Iraq (JFLCC-I) in Baghdad and led the initial fight against ISIS in Iraq.

[15] The 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard) conducted Pittard's general officer retirement ceremony on September 30, 2015, at Joint Base Myer–Henderson Hall, Military District of Washington.

[16] During the period Pittard commanded the post, Fort Bliss earned the LivingWorks Community of Excellence Award for effective suicide prevention and intervention programs in July 2012.

Major General Pittard was reprimanded in February 2015 for "perception of favoritism",[25] for a defense contract award meant to make Fort Bliss an energy-efficient government installation, to a firm that was run by two of his former West Point classmates.

[25] One of his two West Point classmates was convicted on sixteen counts of fraud[25] in federal court according to documents obtained by The Washington Post, under the Freedom of Information Act.