Brigadier General Miguel Aguilar was named the next adjutant general of New Mexico, according to a press release from the governor’s office.
Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D-NM) recently appointed Aguilar, who will serve as her senior military advisor.
“Gen. Aguilar has demonstrated his professional and military leadership throughout his time at the New Mexico National Guard, providing invaluable assistance throughout the pandemic and now as wildfires rage throughout the state,” Lujan Grisham said in the press release. “I am so grateful for his continued service to our state.”
Aguilar will be responsible for ensuring New Mexico and the United States have a ready force of citizen soldiers and airmen.
A native of Dexter, Aguilar was the deputy adjutant general since August 2018. According to the release, he has “served concurrently as the deputy commanding general of First-Army Division West since 2021.”
He received his commission from the New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell.
Aguilar served in Afghanistan in 2005. In 2011, he assumed command of the 1st Battalion, 200th Infantry, a position he held until 2017 when he “became the New Mexico Army National Guard’s Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations.”
Aguilar retired in 2018 from the New Mexico State Police where he was a major in command of the Special Operations Bureau.