Ake Promoted to Brigadier General

Adam Ake, the son of Ken Ake a Cove resident, was promoted to Bridgadier General.

Family and friends attended the hour long ceremony which took place on July 15, 2024, at Fort Lesley J. McNair near Washington, D.C.

Brig. Gen Adam Ake was commissioned in 1997 from West Point, where he graduated first in academic and overall standing. After two years of graduate study as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, BG Ake served as a scout and support platoon leader in Korea and then as a company commander and staff officer at Ft. Lewis, Washington, before leaving active duty to attend law school in 2004.

BG Ake joined the Washington Army National Guard and served as an emergency planner until moving to Maryland in 2007. In 2008, BG Ake deployed to serve on General Petraeus' special staff in the Multi-National Force-Iraq HQ as Rule of Law Advisor and liaison to Iraq's Chief Justice From 2012 to 2014, he commanded 1-175th Infantry (Light), then served as Initiatives Group Chief for the 29th Inf. Division Commander before beginning a yearlong fellowship in the Chief of Staff of the Army's Strategic Studies Group in July 2015. In August 2016, he mobilized and deployed first as the Deputy J3, Combined Joint Operations Center-Jordan in Amman, and then moved to Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, to serve as the 29th Inf. Division Deputy Chief of Staff.

Following resident senior service college at the National Defense University's College of International Strategic Affairs in 2017-18, he spent two years on the National Security Council Staff as a Director for Defense Policy and Strategy. Joining the Army Reserve in August 2020, BG Ake served as a training division branch chief until taking command of the 646th Regional Support Group in Madison, Wisconsin, in 2021. After giving up command in 2023, BG Ake served as Deputy Commander of the 103rd Sustainment Command (Expeditionary), in Des Moines, Iowa, until May 2024, when he returned to active duty and assumed his current role on the Joint Staff.

In civilian life, BG Ake is an Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Maryland where he prosecutes federal criminal felony cases. Previously, he served as an Associate Deputy General Counsel for International Affairs at the Department of Defense and as a law clerk to the Chief Judge Sentelle of the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

BG Ake is married to COL (Dr.) Julie Ake, an Army infectious disease physician and the Director of the Military HIV Research Program. They reside in Howard County, Maryland, with their two youngest daughters.

Their son is a rising college sophomore, and their oldest daughter is a West Point graduate serving as an infantry lieutenant.