(Salem, OR) -- Oregon Governor Tina Kotek has appointed Colonel Alan Gronewald as The Adjutant General of the Oregon National Guard. He'll replace Michael Stencel who is retiring after a 39-year-long military career and eight years as The Adjutant General. Gronewald graduated from West Point and has served for 27 years with deployments in Kuwait, Germany, Afghanistan, and Iraq where he led teams of up to five-thousand people across wide geographic regions.