On May 2, Chaplain Cummings was selected to the rank of colonel by the United States Senate.
Cummings is currently assigned as the Deputy Command Chaplain at Joint Task Force-National Capital Region and U.S. Army Military District of Washington, Fort McNair, Washington, D.C.
Chaplain Cummings reflected and shared his thoughts on his military service and service to ROA:
“As I now enter my 36th Year of Service, I am honored and humbled in this accomplishment, which I owe to the Reserve Organization of America.
“Having grown up and served in the organization, at the most senior of national leadership positions, I am indebted to those who cared and invested in my development.
“From the guidance and mentoring of great leaders before me, such insight and wisdom nurtured this junior officer, into the now senior leader emerging on a national stage.
We need organizations as ROA in times such as this because:
1) Our leaders need the advocacy it provides for the future and;
2) Our nation needs the citizen-warriors it protects the most.
As I move forward in my journey in both uniform and ROA…I keep in the mind the ageless insight delivered in scripture…’To whom much is given greater authority…much is to be expected.'”