Brigadier AD Griffiths OBE (Griff)

Commander 

Armed Forces Recruiting

Brigadier Andrew Griffiths commissioned in in 1999 and undertook early Regimental Duty appointments with the Irish Guards and 3 PARA, at RMAS where he was a Platoon Commander, and he completed his sub-unit command in 16 Air Assault Brigade. On the staff he has spent most of his career in operational, personnel, training and leadership development appointments, and has completed multiple operational deployments to Kosovo, Northern Ireland, Iraq, Afghanistan and within the UK.

Promoted to Lieutenant Colonel in 2012, he attended the Advanced Command and Staff College before deploying once again to Afghanistan and Kabul for which he was appointed OBE. Thereafter, he established and commanded a Defence Training Unit. Upon promotion to Colonel, he completed two assignments as a Chief of Staff – first within the Army Recruiting and Training Command (ARTIC), establishing the Command following the Army’s Training Governance review, and then within the MOD’s Operations Directorate, cohering Defence’s response to UK’s Exit from the EU, COVID-19 and wider UK operations at the height of Op RESCRIPT.

Promoted to Brigadier, he returned to ARITC for a two-year stint as Director Operations, before assuming his current appointment as Commander Armed Forces Recruiting in 2023.

Married to Clare (a Reservist Army officer and international hockey player), they have a young son and daughter, and a mad Labrador. Brigadier Griffiths maintains a keen interest in wider Defence and Security affairs and has an MSc in International Security and an MA in Defence Studies. He is also a keen sportsman having played representational-level rugby union and golf, he loves his ‘phys’, and is honoured and proud to be both the Head of Profession for the SPS and the Regimental Colonel of the Gurkha SPS.