Dominican-born Kertiste A. Augustus, has been promoted to Chief Warrant Officer Four in the United States Army, and takes on the new title of CW4 Augustus.
Augustus was born in Dominica, attended the St. Mary’s Academy and enlisted in the US Army in February 1998.
Upon completion of Basic Training at Fort Leonardwood, Missouri, he attended Advanced Individual Training at Fort Sam-Houston, Texas, earning the MOS 68W, Combat Medic. He followed his MOS training with Basic Airborne School at Fort Benning, Georgia.
In October 2002, CW4 Augustus reclassified to MOS 68J, Medical Logistics Specialist, setting the stage for his ascension into the Warrant Officer Corps in 2006 as a Property Accountability Technician, 920A.
Augustus has served in increasing roles of responsibility to include service as 12th Combat Aviation Brigade Property Book Officer, Senior Property Accountability Instructor/Writer. Logistics Automation Branch Property Book Officer for USAREUR G-4, Field Artillery Supply and Maintenance Management Branch OIC, Field Artillery Battery Commander and 1-30th Field Artillery Operation Officer, and Defense Forces and Public Support System-Army. CW4 Augustus is currently assigned to the White House Communications Agency, serving as the Property Book Officer.
His duty assignments include service with the following units: 44th Medical Brigade, Fort Bragg, North Carolina; 121st General Hospital, Yongsan, Korea;226th Medical Logistics Battalion, Miesau, Germany; 12th Combat Aviation Brigade, Ansbach, Germany; Task Force XII Brigade, Balad, Iraq; USAREUR G-4, Heidelberg, Germany; C Battery/1-30th Field Artillery Battalion, Fort Sill, Oklahoma; Combined Arms Support Command (CASCOM), Fort Lee, Virginia.
Augustus’ military education includes the Warrant Officer Candidate School (Honor Grad), Warrant Officer Basic Course (Distinguished Honor Grad), Warrant Officer Advanced Course (Honor Grad), Warrant Officer Intermediate Level Education (Honor Grad), Basic Instructor Trainer Course, Capability Developer Course, Manpower and Force Management Course, and the Joint Logistics Course.
Augustus’ civilian education includes an Associate’s of Arts from the University of Maryland University College, a Bachelors of Science in Multi-Disciplinary Studies (Psychology) from Grantham University of Oklahoma (Summa Cum Laude) he completed the Strategic Studies Program at the University of California- Berkeley and is currently a Doctoral candidate for Doctor of Philosophy in Clinical Psychology with North Western University.
Augustus’ awards and decorations include, but are not limited to, the Meritorious Service Medal (3OLC), the Army Commendation Medal (2OLC), THE Army Achievement Medal (6 OLC), the Army Good Conduct Medal (2 awards), the National Defense Service Medal, the Korea Defense Service Medal, the Iraq Campaign Medal (2 stars) the Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary and Service Medal as well as the Air Assault Badge, the Parachutist Badge and the German Parachutist Badge.
He is the recipient of the Honorable Order of Saint Barbara and Saint Martin Medal and is certifies as a Demonstrated Master Logistician (DML) by the International Society of Logistics in partnership with the U.S. Army Logistics University’s College of Professional and Continuing Education.
Augustus is the son General Secretary of the Waterfront and Allied Workers Union, Kertiste Augustus.
Papa mi dah. how many teeth are we expected to have. Mr looks like he has about 500?
Congratulations are in order. Job well done. Keep striving. The only limit is the one you set yourself.
well done sir you have made dominicans like me proud
WAW WAW WAW
Unprecedented feat for DOMINICA . Congratulations are in order for KERTIST AUGUST & LYRIS VIGILANT: Proud parents.
Knowing his disciplined upbringing and rare intellect, one cannot be too shocked by KERTIST’s tremendous achievements in such record time.
Dominica and the Caribbean is better off for this.
WE ARE DEEPLY INSPIRED .
Well done!
Sir, thank you for your service! Some Dominicans, posting here, would like your skills put to use back home, but none of them can commandeer a young man’s future. The only choice is whether to appeal to excellence (by being willing to reward it), or whether to adopt policies that signal to excellent people that they are nothing but a resource to be harvested. My own country has similar hard decisions to make, and it is not clear at the moment that Mr. Trump can persuade it to make them. At the least, he has discarded our prissy Rules of Engagement under which you are prohibited from returning fire if fired upon.
Congratulations Kertiste on your achievement and on making your parents, family, friends and country proud. Congrats Lyris and kertiste.
Congratulations on your achievement.
Well, I as a lay man I did not understand most of his credentials , but does that qualify him to perform a wedding?
What does Dominica have to offer young citizens? Absolutely nothing…
No matter what part of the world we settle, it’s always lovely to hear a fellow countryman doing well. Congrats to you and your family.
Congrats!!! Well done. But whi is his mother please. His mother is just as important as his father.
Very gud my young dominican brother!
While this young man was busy climbing Jacobs ladder to see the other side and making us proud; we have un_orable dr. punjab and the gang selling the soul of the country and making us shame _there’s the difference between darkness and the light.
My thoughts exactly, how is this dude’s promotion going to aid or benefit Dominica and its inhabitants,,,
Ok so he got deeper into the Rabbit’s hole and into the Abyss of the Military-Industrial Complex for the establishment to attack, control and manipulate poor people,,,
that is awesome keep up the good works my fellow Dominican.,
Good work how, do you even know what the command of that Post is responsible for???
What’s the importance of this information? That’s the personal achievement of an individual in a foreign army, unfortunately his achievements doesn’t help Dominica, is not like he won a gold medal at the Olympics.
And how would a gold medal help Dominica? This what Idon’t understand, why not celebrate how for our people can go in the outside world rather than to ridiculing someone’s personal success?
A Dominican winning a gold medal at the Olympics would not only be a personal achievement but would bring pride to Dominica. This would be a national achievement. To make a big thing of Mr. Augustus getting a promotion in the US army in 2017 shows that some of us are still mentally enslaved. Again I ask what significance is this occasion to Dominica?
Keep quiet and go back in your hole, you can crab
Oops dam crab; although they should can you too
Stop being negative you stupid jealous donk hole
You a so wrong his position have lifted Dominica unfortunately, regardless of what is happening around us we still try to lift our lovely Dominica up, so congratulation to you Sir we are proud of what you have done not only for yourself and parents you did it for Dominica and it’s people and we that you and God bless you.
Even if he had won a gold medal in the Olympics, people like you would still down grade his achievement.
Envy is a very bad trait.
Don’t know CW4 Augustus, but as a Dominican I to join those who say ‘Congratulations’
His achievements are much greater to him than the Olympics don’t be a heater to the young man what did your children achieved
No need for this discouragement; we are all to be proud that one of ours can make us proud. Lets be proud with him as he has made Dominicans proud.
congrats my dear Sir on your achievement.
Please can’t you be happy for the young man? Congratulations my friend you have done well. You won the place to get flowers receive them with grace. May the good Lord continue to bless you and proper you in all you do. Mr A. senior take a bow and enjoy the success of your son with rest of your family. Congratulations young man, well done.
Well done brother
A simple congratulations will do don’t bring politics in everything
Congrats to you and families
Congratulations.
Yess baby brother you did that…. ..so proud of you…..love you to eternity
when will all this senseless killing stop? When will the need for military power be a thing of the past. STOP CELEBRATING MEN WHO PROMOTE VIOLENCE AROUND THE WORLD. America’s army has done nothing but kill kill kill and now our people are being baited to join up and sacrifice for that cooperate greed as well. Shame on you young man.
For “freedom” they say they fighting. Meanwhile in America you get picked up by the police daily just for being black in public, you cannot enjoy a beer or a rum while walking down the street, to sell a cigarette to your friend in public you need a license, you cannot collect rain water and the list does on. They are fighting for control and power. that is all it is.
The face of ignorance. Just be quiet. Why do you have to bring negativity on someone’s accomplishments? Is your life that meaningless?
Jealousy that is what it is
Are u for real?this young man represents freedom,why dont u wake up and do something about the sick people strapping bombs to themselves and killing the innocent? This man is one of those like myself who are ensuring that u sleep safe at night .
I couldnt agree with you more, WICKED THEY WICKED AND GREEDY!
Don’t hate the man for his achievements he work hard for them while you there just lazy and doing nothing get up your butt do something with your life
His achievements arent being hated upon. His hard work i believe it was certainly not easy for a black man from the caribbean to be highly favored in the US Army to rise this far, is not going unrecognized and is very commended. However, It doesnt matter to me if you rose to be the field marshal general or whatever title in the american army, or satans army or whatever army, if your army’s purpose for invading countries, killing innocent people, destroying their homes, stealing their resources, creating chaos in aims of having political control through puppet regimes, polluting regions with your material culture etc is done under the guise of “freedom”. I can respect you as an officer, but cannot respect what your army stands for. I have 100x more freedom here in Dominica (safely ans securely) than in any state in America. That is a complete fact. as for you tomtom, it seems someone touched a nerve. laughable.
Top guy. Would probably make a good leader in the dominican government.
So why united states doesnt help dominica if they got Dominica people working for them
Because Dominica can help itself. It is Dominicans that are too wicked that is why the country isnt progressing like it should. People keep letting these politicians tell us they dominica is poor, we are a poor country, the country doesnt have money blablabla. Now lets just imagine this was true (IT most certainly is not the case as we have millions floating through here daily), why cant we decide to work with the natural resources that we do have and begin to produce for ourselves? then when we have enough to share with neighbors we can export. technology and ingenuity is there, we are a brilliant people and can invent and use tradition to inspire new ways of doing things. why are we still using cutlass and garden for to till acres of soil? why dont we look into recycling out bottles (glass and plastic) why dont we process our fruits? why dont we sell our soil? why? there is a market for every resource in Dominica. minerals, wood, water, herbs, you name it. we can sustain ourselves.
There are Dominicans in the British army. Why doesn’t the UK help Dominica? Every handout comes with a price. You all will complain about their terms for helping…
Big up young man. Always knew you would excel!!
My son graduated from the same military location like he did , congrats my fellow Dominican, there are a lot of educated , experience Dominican diasporas out there who are yearning to come home to share there expertise , and to build the Island , we are not red, nor bleau we are Dominicans,
The Executive & Staff of the Waterfront & Allied Workers Union wishes to congratulate Kertiste A. Augustus Jr. on his promotion to Chief Warrant Officer Four in the United States Army, where he takes on the new title of CW4 Augustus. We also wish to congratulate his parents Kertist Augustus and Lyris Vigilante. Well done Kertist Jr. we are proud of you.
Kertist Augustus Jr. the members of the WAWU also wishes to congratulate you and your parents.
U send them.your pic looking young u look older in person way to go take all what they giving I didnt had the guts like u congrats
I too would like to add my voice in congratulating Kertiste A. Augustus Chief Warrant Officer Four in the U.S. Army. You make us all proud,….. as a People of Dominica and the Caribbean making impact on the world stage.
His mom is Lyris Vigilante.
Congratulations son. I don’t know you but I know the formidable character who is your father and as his seed greatness is in your DNA. Continue to do well as you go through this life. God bless and tip your hat my first Gun…..
Congratulations. A son of our soil, a real hero, representing and making us great again. Highlight the good we have to offer and stop the hate, we all win. Another Proud Dominican!
We need this young man back home to turn things around
PM please give this man a job. When was the time we had our
Police men and wemen face on DNO. we need out men and women in law
Enforcement in Dominica,to feel what that young man is feeling now for his
accomplishment..ON TOP OF THE WORLD
the man tell all you he want to come back home? and why PM must give him a job? why cant the Private sector employ him? Oh i forgot, The provate sector cannot even afford to hire their own employees, the Government with their NEP program has to pay the salaries of staff in the private sector. Why cant this young man create his own work? I am fed up of Dominicans running to the PM for everything they want. We have lost our will to work. we have lost our courage. We have become fat and lazy and selfish and greedy. I am happy that Mr. Augustus was able to move up in his ranks in the military. Good job it most likely was not easy. But i doubt you would want to come back to Dominica to join our local police force. You are more skilled than that.
Congrats my brother..well done