Waff has held numerous positions of increasing responsibility throughout his military career and received various recognitions for his service, both in the army and in his personal life. He served in active duty for four years at
Fort Jackson,
South Carolina, and held a variety of positions including, the Executive Officer of the Advanced Individual Training Company; Battalion Adjutant for the 11th Battalion; executive officer and commander for the Fort Jackson Headquarters Company; and the executive officer and adjutant for the Military Enlistment Processing Station. Waff joined the
United States Army Reserve in October 1980. Among his many titles, Waff also served as executive officer of the 479th Personnel Service Company at
Fort Sheridan,
Illinois, and chief, Strength Management Office, of the 85th Maneuver Exercise Command (MEC) from 1989 to 1992. For this particular position, Waff was responsible for "administrative, logistics, and facilities support to more than 51,000 Army Reserve soldiers, 160,000 family members in 439 units at 328 Army Reserve centers, and 33 maintenance facilities in
Virginia,
Maryland,
Delaware,
Pennsylvania,
New York,
New Jersey,
New Hampshire,
Massachusetts,
Connecticut,
Maine,
Vermont,
Rhode Island, and Washington, D.C." On 9 May 2016 the 99th Regional Support Command and Army Support Activity Fort Dix were awarded the Army Superior Unit Award (ASUA) by the US Army Human Resource Command on 9 May 2016 for their role in relief efforts after
Hurricane Sandy. This was the first time an Army Reserve unit was awarded the ASUA for a role in a Defense Support to Civil Authority (DSCA) mission. On 22 December 2010, he was promoted to major general. Since retiring, Waff was selected as the executive director of the Military Chaplains Association (www.mca-usa.org), beginning in February 2018. The Military Chaplains Association is the professional association of over 3,000 US military, Civil Air Patrol and federal chaplains, for which it provides advocacy, communication and education. Additionally, Waff was reappointed to the US Army Command and General Staff College Board of Visitors for a second three-year term, has continued to serve on the Army Reserve Advisory Group for the US Merchant Marine Academy at King's Point, New York, and is the senior mentor for the Professor of Military Science at the University of Memphis. In July, 2018, he was appointed to the board of directors of
Omicron Delta Kappa, the national leadership society, for a two-year term. Outside of the army, Waff was ordained as a priest at Trinity Cathedral in the Diocese of Upper South Carolina in 1984 and has served as the director of pastoral care and ethics of St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital, Racine, Wisconsin, and as director of pastoral care, ethics, and interpreter services at Vista Health in
Waukegan, Illinois. He also served as the president of the Wisconsin Chaplaincy Commission, national chairman of the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Pastoral Services and as the chairman, standards committee, Association of Professional Chaplains (APC). He is also a Board Certified Chaplain of APC. He is also a member of the Sovereign Military Order of the Temple of Jerusalem (SMOTJ) with the rank of Grand Officer of the Temple of Jerusalem (GOTJ), the Hospitallar and Military Order of St. Lazarus of Jerusalem with the rank of Ecclesiastical Grand Cross of St. Lazarus (EGCLJ), and as a member of The Noble Company of St Mary of Walsingham. ==Awards==