[2] He previously served as the deputy chief for computer network operations of the NSA.

[3] While serving as an enlisted Marine in 1st Radio Battalion, Carter was awarded an NROTC Scholarship to attend Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia and was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps upon graduating in 1992.

From 2014 to 2016, then Colonel Carter served as Commanding Officer of the Marine Corps Intelligence Activity (MCIA).

From 2010 to 2011, BGen Carter served as the Commandant of the Marine Corps' National Security Fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University and, the Timothy T. Day Fellow at the Harvard Business School in 2016.

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