Anchorage Health Department director Joe Gerace resigned Monday after talking with our colleagues at Alaska Public Media about evidence showing that he had exaggerated and lied on his resume.
His lofty title of lieutenant colonel comes from his position in the Alaska State Defense Force, a group of volunteers that sometimes assists the Guard, but is not part of the U.S. Armed Forces.
Running the Health Department is a challenging job even for a qualified manager. It has more than 100 employees and a $15 million budget. In addition to COVID and homelessness, the department oversees such varied areas as food assistance, air quality monitoring, restaurant inspection and animal control.
Gerace’s actual military experience is limited, and some of the claims he has made are misleading or false. Records show Gerace not only uses his ASDF lieutenant colonel rank liberally, he has also stoked the misperception that he holds that position in the Alaska National Guard. Former servicemen and women who join the Alaska State Defense Force typically start at the same rank they had in the military. It is unclear how Gerace rocketed from E-4 specialist, an enlisted rank, to lieutenant colonel, a high-ranking officer.
None of those deployments appear in the Army’s databases, and Gerace admitted during an interview that the claim on the resume was false.But he went on to explain that he had been deployed “through a lot of different agencies” like the Red Cross in “austere conditions, very, very bad conditions, disasters and other stuff.”
Gerace listed two master’s degrees and a “dual Bachelor’s” on the resume he submitted to the Anchorage Assembly in September. The Washington Student Achievement Council took custody of Henry Cogswell College’s student transcripts when the school closed in 1996. It has no record of Gerace attending the school either.
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