Lieutenant Colonel (Lt Col) Kevron W Henry, after leaving the Wolmers’ Trust High School for Boys, joined the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) in December 1996. After basic training at the Caribbean Infantry Training Centre (then JDF Training Depot), in April 1997, he embarked on his initial officer training in the United Kingdom (UK), at the Commando Training Centre, Royal Marines (CTCRM). Upon his return to Jamaica in September 1998, he was posted to the Second Battalion the Jamaica Regiment (2 JR) as an infantry platoon commander.

Throughout his service, Lieutenant Colonel Henry has held numerous infantry-based appointments in the Jamaica Regiment, to include most notably serving as the Commanding Officer of the First Battalion the Jamaica Regiment (1JR) and later as the Brigade Executive Officer of the Jamaica Regiment. He has also notably served as the Detachment Commander for Force Special Operations and Counter Terrorism. He has further held staff appointments as
Training Major Third Battalion the Jamaica Regiment (3JR), National Reserve (NR), and on the Joint Headquarters’ JDF staff; with a particular focus on training, strategy, policies and plans. He has also held appointments with the Caribbean Military Academy (CMA) as the initial Quality Assurance and Standards’ Officer for the Formation; Standards Officer and Chief Instructor for the Caribbean Institute of Professional Military Education (CIPME) and as a member of the Directing Staff of various professional military education serials.

Lieutenant Colonel Henry has further served as the Assistant Event Director and head of Secretariat for the Jamaica Military Tattoo 2012 (JMT2012), and for the JDF’s sixtieth (60 th ) anniversary celebrations (2022), also as a member and Chairman of the JDF/NCTVET technical team for public safety, security and military operations competency.

He has served externally as a Director on the Board of the national Sports Development Foundation (SDF), as a member of the Strategic Advisory Group (SAG) to the Government of the Commonwealth of Dominica and a member of the Strategic Review Team for the Commonwealth of Dominica Police Force (CDPF) and in 2022 as the Chairman of the Jamaica Legion’s National Poppy Appeal Committee, where he staged in 2023 the inaugural National Poppy Appeal Festival of Remembrance.

In 2023 Lieutenant Colonel Henry was appointed as the Jamaican and CARICOM operational planning lead for operational support to the Multinational Security Support (MSS) Mission to the Republic of Haiti. He was subsequently appointed in 2024 as the contingent commander for the Joint Jamaican contingent, the CARICOM Joint Task Force-Haiti (CJTF-H) and the Deputy Force Commander for the MSS.

Lieutenant Colonel Henry holds notable military qualifications from the Commando Training Centre Royal Marines, UK; the Caribbean Junior Command and Staff College (CJCSC), Jamaica, the United States Marine Corps (USMC), Expeditionary Warfare School (EWS), Quantico, Virginia, U.S.A. and the United States Army, Command and General Staff College (CGSC), Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas. He also holds a BSc (International Relations with Criminology) and an MSc (National Security and Strategic Studies) from the University of the West Indies, Jamaica, an MSc (Risk, Crisis and Disaster Management) from the University of Leicester, United Kingdom and a MMAS (Strategic Studies) from the United States Army, Command and General Staff College. His Masters’ theses were primarily focused on natural resource scarcity and management, crisis management and a revised spectrum of conflict. He has been published in the professional journal of the U.S. Army, the ‘Military Review’ and is currently a Doctoral student pursuing a PhD in Adult Learning and Leadership with the College of Education at the Kansas State University, USA.

Lieutenant Colonel Henry’s operational assignments have been primarily domestic and in the Caribbean region most notably Jamaican security assistance contingent commander in 2009 to Trinidad and Tobago in support of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Conference and to the Commonwealth of Dominica in 2017 as a member of the Strategic Advisory Group (SAG) post the destruction caused by Category Five Hurricane Maria and as the contingent commander for the Joint Jamaican contingent, the CARICOM Joint Task Force-Haiti (CJTF-H) and the Deputy Force Commander for the Multinational Security Support (MSS) Mission to the Republic of Haiti.

He is a recipient of the Medals of Honour for Meritorious Service, General Service and Long Service and Good Conduct, also the Jamaica Military Commendation Medal for Excellence and the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Medal.

His areas of academic and professional interest are post-colonial teacher educational constructs, military history and strategic thought, the spectrum of conflict, joint and special operations, contingency operations’ planning and execution, history, philosophy, literature, crisis management and leadership. He is a Justice of the Peace and is married to Alicia, who is also an active duty commissioned officer and he has two children.