236 Millennium - A Marquis Who’s Who Magazine GOVERNMENT AND MILITARY JAMES F. LINZEY, DD CHAPLAIN, REAL ESTATE INVESTOR, EDUCATOR, PUBLIC SPEAKER, AUTHOR, RECORDING ARTIST, ACTOR Escondido, CA Driven by a calling from God to lend his services to several industries, including serving underprivileged communities, Dr. James F. Linzey has understood from a formative age that everyone possesses gifts beyond their imagination. He emphasizes that everyone can reach their full potential by eliminating what is often a deeply ingrained belief that there may be only a singular scope of life. In turn, these individuals can harness their abilities to their fullest potential; Dr. Linzey is one such individual. As an acclaimed chaplain, educator, public speaker, author, recording artist, military officer, real estate investor and actor, he has channeled his multitude of abilities to enhance society. At the inception of his career, Dr. Linzey served as a youth pastor for the First Assembly of God in Huntington Park, California, in 1979. He eventually taught for the Los Angeles Unified School District and, concurrently, received a commission as an officer in the U.S. Air Force, later in the U.S. Army. Serving his country dutifully over the course of nearly 25 years, he thrived as a chaplain in the military sector. Dr. Linzey was first commissioned as a first lieutenant in the Air Force in 1985 and advanced to the rank of captain in 1989. Thereafter, he was commissioned as a captain in the Army in 1998, ultimately achieving the rank of major in 2004. Most notably, he was recognized as a lieutenant colonel in 2020 through the United States Volunteers-Joint Services Command, a military organization formally recognized by the U.S. Department of Defense. As his career progressed, Dr. Linzey was appointed as the command chaplain for Operation Noble Eagle II of the Southwest Region under the Department of Homeland Security in 2002, where he served at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico for one year. For the following year until 2004, he served as the supervising chaplain for Operation Iraqi Freedom II at the largest mobilization and demobilization mission in the continental United States, at Fort Bliss in Texas. Two years later, he was requested to serve as the first full-time chaplain for the Leader’s Training Course under the U.S. Army Cadet Command at Fort Knox in
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