11 Facts About Michael Bumgarner

Colonel Michael Bumgarner was born on 1959 and has been a career officer in the military police of the United States Army.

Michael Bumgarner is most noted for having been the commander of the Joint Detention Group, the guard force component of Joint Task Force Guantanamo, from April 2005 through June 2006, at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp.

Michael Bumgarner is the son of a career army sergeant major and his wife, in a family that valued military service.

Michael Bumgarner joined the ROTC to help in his college education at Western Carolina University, and entered the army after college.

When Michael Bumgarner arrived at Guantanamo, much about the detainees' legal status was unsettled.

Michael Bumgarner worked to reduce tensions at the camp between the guards and detainees, for instance, supplying bottled water because of complaints about the tap water.

Detainees have said that Colonel Michael Bumgarner made promises of improvements in treatment and conditions that the camp administration later failed to fulfill.

Michael Bumgarner was assigned as the director of the Maneuver Support Center, Capabilities Development and Integration Directorate, Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri.

Michael Bumgarner was responsible for developing new concepts for the army to help protect the force.

Michael Bumgarner served as the senior US advisor to the Baghdad Police College while serving in the Civilian Police Training Team from 2007 to 2008.

Horton wrote that Michael Bumgarner had participated in a major cover-up at the camp, in which top officers had been involved.