Brigadier General Ryan M. Hoyle assumed duties as the Deputy Commanding General, III Marine Expeditionary Force and Commanding General, 3d Marine Expeditionary Brigade on 6 February 2026.
Operational assignments include: Assistant Division Commander, 1st Marine Division; Assistant Chief of Staff for Operations (AC/S G-3), I MEF; Commanding Officer, 24th MEU; Future Operations Officer, II MEF; Commanding Officer, 2d Battalion, 3d Marines; Current Operations Officer, 3d Marine Division; G-3 Operations Officer, 1st Marine Division; Operations Officer, 1st Marine Regiment; Operations Officer, Dragoon and Huron Company Commander, and Assistant Operations Officer, 3d Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion; Company Executive Officer, Weapons Platoon Commander and Rifle Platoon Commander, Lima Company, 3d Battalion, 7th Marines.
Staff Assignments include: AC/S G-3 and G-39, Marine Forces Europe and Africa; Aide de Camp to the Deputy Chairman of the NATO Military Committee; Amphibious Staff Officer and Exercise Planner, NATO Special Operations Headquarters; Executive Officer and Operations Officer, Recruiting Station Indianapolis.
Brigadier General Hoyle’s operational deployments include a deployment as the Commander of CTF-61 in Naples, Italy; Battalion Commander as a Forward Deployed Force to Okinawa; a deployment to Afghanistan with 1st Marine Regiment as Task Force Belleau Wood in RC(SW); a deployment to ISAF SOF HQs as the Technical Exploitation Implementation Team Leader; a deployment to Iraq as a Military Advisor to the 2-1-7 Iraqi Battalion in Ramadi, Iraq; a deployment to Iraq with Dragoon Company, 3d Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion during OIF II-2; and a deployment to Okinawa under the Unit Deployment Program.
Brigadier General Hoyle is a 1996 graduate from Oklahoma University’s NROTC Program with a Bachelor of Science in Health and Spots Sciences. He has graduated from the Basic Officer Course, Infantry Officer Course, the Armor Captains Career Course in Fort Knox, KY, earned a Master of Arts (MA) degree in National Security and Strategic Studies from the Naval Command and Staff Course in Newport, RI, and a MA in Political Science from Haifi University while attending the Israeli National Defense College.