
Infantry Coronel, Staff Officer
Ulises Méndez Badal
Permanent Executive Secretary of conference of american armies
Academic background
- Sep. 1st 1995 to Ago. 31st 1998, Infantry Officer Formation Course and Technical Superior in Administration in Heroico Colegio Militar (Military Academy).
- Ago. 1st 2005 to Ago. 1st 2008, Command and General Staff Officer Course, War School obtaining the title of Staff Officer and Bachelor’s Degree in Military Administration.
- Feb. 2013 to Dic. 2014, Master’s Degree in Strategic and Geopolitics in Argentine’s Army War School, Buenos Aires, Argentine.
- Basic Paratrooper Course at the Heroico Colegio Militar (Military Academy).
- Paratrooper Combatant Course.
- Basic Military Judicial Police Course at the Army and Air Force Studies Center
- Online Course in Notions of National Security, Colegio de Defensa Nacional (National Defense Academy).
- Online Course in National Defense and Security Strategy, Inter-American Defense College, Washington, D.C.
- Firearm Instructor Course, Military Academy of Firearm, Mazaquiahuac, Tlaxcala.
- United Nations Planners Course Training, UN, New York, NY USA
- Introduction to Military Police Assessment Centre Training.
Positions and Assignments
- Section Commander of diverse Infantry Units.
- 2003-2005, Adjutant, Subsecretariat the National Defense, Mexico City.
- 2005-2008, Student, War School, Mexico City.
- 2008-2009, Company Commander and Chief of the Training, Information and Operations Section, 46th Infantry Battalion, Mexico City.
- 2009-2011, belonging to the Services and Special Events Subsection at DN-1,
S-3 (Operations) General Joint Staff of the National Defense. - 2011-2013, Head of the Adjutants’ team of the General Secretary of the National Defense.
- 2013-2014, Secretariat Section, while attending a Master’s Degree course at Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- 2015-2017, Deputy Commander and Command-Group Chief, 77th Infantry Battalion, Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas.
- 2016, Participant in the Ardent Sentry Binational Exercise 2016, at Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas USA.
- 2017-2018, Deputy Chief of Staff, 25th Military Zone, Puebla, Puebla.
- 2018-2021, Chief of the Internal Dissemination Office, General Directorate of Social Communication, Mexico City.
- 2021-2022, Commander, 86th Infantry Battalion, Acaponeta, Nayarit.
- 2022, Commander, 3rd Paratroopers Rifle Battalion, Santa Lucia, Mexico. 2023-2025, Adjutant Military Advisor, Permanent Mission of Mexico to the UN, NY, USA.
Decorations
- 5th, 4th, 3rd and 2nd Classes Perseverance Decorations.
- Special Plan DN-III-E badge for personnel who have contributed on mitigating the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Recognition for Military Innovation for the Project “Digital App for Army and F.A.M. Magazine,” for being Chief of the Internal Distribution Section.
- Honorable Mention for outstanding performance, professionalism, courage and spirit of sacrifice demonstrated by military personnel during the execution of Plan DN-III-E, among the affected population of the State of Nayarit, due to the passing of Hurricane “PAMELA,” in 2021.