Col. Rebekah S. Lust

Deputy Director, Functional Management Division, IPPS-A

Col. Rebekah (Becky) Lust serves as deputy director of the Functional Management Division, Integrated Personnel and Pay System – Army (IPPS-A). IPPS-A aims to modernize Army human resources and develop a system for managing talent, reducing IT and military pay costs, and improving Soldiers’ lives through transparency and mobile capabilities.

Previously, Lust served as the assistant chief of staff, G-1 for the 25th Infantry Division from June 2018 to June 2020. Before that, from June 2016 to June 2018, she served as assistant director, force management in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower and Reserve Affairs, Military Personnel Policy, Officer and Enlisted Personnel Management.

Lust’s military assignments include: battalion adjutant, Special Troops Command, and later officer strength manager, 1st Corps Support Command; chief, officer strength management, and later operations officer, United States Army Combined Arms Center; battalion S1, special troops battalion, 4th Infantry Division; brigade combat team S1, 3rd brigade combat team, 4th Infantry Division; chief, Personnel Services Division, United States Forces Korea, J-1; assignments officer, United States Army Human Resource Command; G-1/G-4 for the Fires Center of Excellence; and military assistant for human resources to the commander, resolute support/commander, United States Forces Afghanistan. Lust twice deployed to Iraq with the 4th Infantry Division as a battalion S1 and brigade combat team S1, and once to Afghanistan as a military assistant.

Part of Lust’s military training included being commissioned through Edinboro University of Pennsylvania’s ROTC program into the United States Army Adjutant General’s Corps. She is also a graduate of the Adjutant General Officer Basic and Advanced courses; the United States Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas; and the Eisenhower School of National Security and Resource Strategy in Washington, D.C.

Lust earned a bachelor’s degree in speech communications from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania in Edinboro, Pennsylvania. She also attained two master’s degrees from Webster University in St. Louis, Missouri — one in human resources development and one in computer resources and information management. She received a third master's degree national resource strategy from The Eisenhower School of National Security  and Resource Strategy.

Lust’s awards and decorations include the Bronze Star Medal (one oak leaf cluster), Defense Meritorious Service Medal (two oak leaf clusters), Meritorious Service Medal (three oak leaf clusters), Army Commendation Medal (two oak leaf clusters), Army Achievement Medal (one bronze oak leaf cluster), Parachutist Badge, Office of the Secretary of Defense Identification Badge and Army Staff Badge.