Colonel John Joseph “Jay” McNulty, III was Chief of the House Liaison Division of the Office of the Chief Legislative Liaison (United States Army) U.S. Secretary of the Army at The Pentagon. Prior to closing his 29 years of service in the U.S. Army by serving, finally, in this sensitive position, Col. Jay McNulty was both an Army Vietnam War mechanized cavalry combat commander serving first with the 11th Armored Cavalry Division (Black Horse Regiment) and, later, with the 1st Cavalry Regiment (United States) (1st U.S. Dragoons) (Blackhawks), and, also, in peacetime, an Army commander of the 1st Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, Ft. Bliss, Texas. McNulty was a 1981 centennial class graduate of the United States Army Command and General Staff College.