Scaparrotti's initial duty assignments were as a rifle and anti-tank platoon leader, operations officer and company commander in 3rd Battalion, 325th Infantry, 82nd Airborne Division at
Fort Bragg, North Carolina. In 1984, Scaparrotti completed the infantry officer advanced course at
Fort Benning, Georgia, followed by studies in Administrative Education at the
University of South Carolina, where he earned his Master of Education degree. Scaparrotti returned to West Point in 1985 where he was assigned as a tactical officer and the superintendent's aide-de-camp until 1988. After his assignment there, he continued his military studies at the U.S. Army
Command and General Staff College at
Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. By July 1989, Scaparrotti went on to serve with the
10th Mountain Division in
Fort Drum, New York, where he was the operations officer for 1st Battalion, 87th Infantry Regiment and then moved to division headquarters as the chief of the operations branch. From 1992 to 1994, Scaparrotti was stationed in Washington, D.C., at the Army Total Personnel Command and the
Army Chief of Staff's office. In May 1994, Scaparrotti took command of 3rd Battalion, 325th Airborne Combat Team, Southern European Task Force in Vicenza, Italy, and in that time he commanded the battalion during Operations
Support Hope in Zaire/Rwanda,
Joint Endeavor in
Bosnia-Herzegovina and
Assured Response (1996) in Liberia. Scaparrotti returned to Fort Drum in 1996 as the 10th Mountain Division's operations officer and from there he continued his studies at the
U.S. Army War College, Carlisle Barracks. He served as the chief of Army Initiatives Group in the Deputy Chief of Staff's Office for Plans and Operations in Washington, D. C. in 1998. By 1999, Scaparrotti returned to Fort Bragg to command the 2nd Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division before he moved on to serve as the assistant deputy director for Joint Operations on the
Joint Staff, Washington, D. C., from 2001 to 2003. ,
Philip M. Breedlove and
Joseph Dunford, 3 May 2016 From July 2003 to July 2004, Scaparrotti served as the assistant division commander (Maneuver) for the
1st Armored Division during the
Iraq War. From August 2004 to July 2006, Scaparrotti served as the 69th commandant of cadets, United States Military Academy, at West Point, New York. Thereafter, he was assigned as the director of operations (J3) for
United States Central Command (CENTCOM), providing oversight to all military operations throughout the CENTCOM Area of Responsibility, including Iraq and Afghanistan, and also including operations in Somalia, at a critical phase in those missions. 's military chief
Gadi Eizenkot, 16 August 2016 Scaparrotti assumed command of the
82nd Airborne Division on 1 October 2008, and deployed the headquarters to Eastern Afghanistan where he served as the commanding general of Combined Joint Task Force 82 and Regional Command East. On 15 October 2010, Scaparrotti assumed command of I Corps and Joint Base Lewis McChord (JBLM) at Fort Lewis, Washington. While serving as I Corps commander, Scaparrotti served concurrently as commander,
International Security Assistance Force Joint Command and deputy commander, U.S. Forces – Afghanistan from 11 July 2011 to 12 June 2012. In July 2012, Scaparrotti took over as director of the Joint Staff. He was succeeded as I Corps commander by Lieutenant General
Robert B. Brown on 3 July 2012. In August 2013, Scaparrotti took over command of U.S. forces in South Korea, replacing General
James D. Thurman. In April 2016, he was succeeded as USFK commander by General
Vincent K. Brooks. In May 2016 he assumed duties as commander of European Command and as Supreme Allied Commander, Europe. In April 2018, Scaparotti met General
Valery Gerasimov, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, under the auspices of the
NATO-Russia Council, in
Baku. This act represented the first attempt to build up a dialogue with Moscow after the
annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation and Putin's declaration to empower Russian military capabilities. In May 2019 he was succeeded by General
Tod D. Wolters. Scaparrotti also sits on the Atlantic Council's board of directors. ==Awards and decorations==