Chief Warrant Officer Five Terry F. Throm is a native of St. Louis, Missouri. He entered the Army in February 1985, completing basic training at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri and Advance Individual Training (AIT) at Fort Dix, New Jersey where he was trained as an 88M Army Motor Transport Operator. He was accessed into the Warrant Officer Corps and became a Mobility Warrant Officer, MOS 882A, in 2006.