Major General Lance Curtis, Commander
Personal Property Activity
Lance G. Curtis is a native of Warrensburg, Missouri. He earned an undergraduate degree from the University of Missouri, where he also received his commission in the Reserve Officer Training Corps. He also holds master’s degrees from Webster University and the National Defense University. He completed Army Ranger school. He availed himself of several military academic opportunities.
Curtis has served in several command positions, including Company Commander of Bravo Company, Medical Center Brigade of Walter Reed Army Medical Center; Company Commander of HQ and Alpha Company, 626th Forward Support Battalion, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault); Rear Detachment Commander of the Division Support Command, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault); Battalion Commander of the 87th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, 3rd Sustainment Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division; Commander of the 528th Sustainment Brigade (Special Operations, Airborne), 1st Special Forces Command, United States Army Special Operations Command; and Commanding General ofthe 3rd Expeditionary Sustainment Command, XVIII Airborne Corps.
Curtis became Commanding General of the U.S. Army Transportation Command in July 2024. He became the head of the Permanent Change of Station (PCS) Joint Task Force (JTF) in June 2025. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Curtis as the Commander of the new Personal Property Activity in January 2026.
In the News…
The Pentagon announced that the management of military Permanent Changes of Station will be transitioning to the newly established Personal Property Activity (PPA) task force, commanded by Major General Lance Curtis. The task force had previously operated on a temporary basis, seeking to improve the movement of the household belongings for military families across all branches of the U.S. Armed Forces.
“When our warfighters are worried about their household goods, they aren’t focused on their mission,” Major General Curtis stated. “We are ending that distraction. Mission readiness is non-negotiable.”
“The [Pentagon] moves approximately 300,000 service members [and] civilians every single year… It’s a $3 billion program,” he explained. “Because of the magnitude, that it’s going to touch every service member somewhere over three years, really led us to the decision.“
“We really felt we had to have good coordination within the building, on the Hill, with the service members and with industry,” the PPA commander said of the end-to-end management of military moves under the new agency. “The services know this is something that takes bandwidth from them. Given the fact they’ve got multiple things going on at any given time, I think they view this as fortuitous, having one organization that looks at this so they can get their time back to focus on warfighting.”
