Gregory J. "Greg" Zanetti is an American retired officer of the

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, financial advisor, and political candidate.

Early life and education

Zanetti was raised in

Albuquerque, New Mexico Albuquerque ( ; ), also known as ABQ, Burque, the Duke City, and in the past 'the Q', is the List of municipalities in New Mexico, most populous city in the U.S. state of New Mexico, and the county seat of Bernalillo County, New Mexico, Bernal ...

and graduated from Valley High School in 1976. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the

United States Military Academy The United States Military Academy (USMA), commonly known as West Point, is a United States service academies, United States service academy in West Point, New York that educates cadets for service as Officer_(armed_forces)#United_States, comm ...

, a Master of Business Administration from

Boston University Boston University (BU) is a Private university, private research university in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. BU was founded in 1839 by a group of Boston Methodism, Methodists with its original campus in Newbury (town), Vermont, Newbur ...

, and a Master of Strategic Studies from the

United States Army War College The United States Army War College (USAWC) is a U.S. Army staff college in Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, with a Carlisle postal address, on the 500-acre (2 km2) campus of the historic Carlisle Barracks. It provides graduate-level instru ...

Career

Zanetti served as deputy commander of

Joint Task Force Guantanamo Joint Task Force Guantanamo (JTF-GTMO) is a U.S. military joint task force based at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Guantánamo Bay, Cuba on the southeastern end of the base. JTF-GTMO falls under US Southern Command. Since January 2002 the command ...

. On August 13, 2008 Zanetti testified at a pre-trial hearing prior to Guantanamo captive Mohamed Jawad's

Guantanamo military commission The Guantanamo military commissions were established by President George W. Bush through a military order on November 13, 2001, to try certain non-citizen terrorism suspects at the Guantanamo Bay prison. To date, there have been a total of eight ...

. Zanetti's Guantanamo tenure ended in January 2009. On June 14, 2021, he announced his candidacy in the

2022 New Mexico gubernatorial election The 2022 New Mexico gubernatorial election took place on November 8, 2022, to elect the governor and lieutenant governor of New Mexico. The election coincided with various other federal and state elections. Primary elections were held on ...

as a Republican.

Personal life

Zanetti is married to Teresa Zanetti, a former

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; they have two sons.

References

External links

Greg Zanetti for Governor
1960s births Living people United States Army generals People from Albuquerque, New Mexico United States Military Academy alumni Boston University School of Management alumni United States Army War College alumni Valley High School alumni Year of birth missing (living people) {{US-army-bio-stub