November 15, 2023Mr. Eugene Kowel Mr. Kowel joined the FBI as a special agent in 2005 and was assigned to the Joint Terrorism Task Force in the New York Field Office, where he led criminal and counterterrorism investigations. Mr. Kowel completed deployments to Iraq in 2008 and Afghanistan in 2009 in support of the FBI’s counterterrorism mission. He was promoted to supervisory special agent in 2010 and worked in the International Terrorism Operations Section, Counterterrorism Division, at FBI Headquarters in Washington. In 2013, Mr. Kowel was named the supervisory senior resident agent leading the Savannah and Brunswick resident agencies in Georgia. He oversaw FBI criminal and counterterrorism investigations and led several task forces. Mr. Kowel was promoted in 2016 as an assistant special agent in charge in the Los Angeles Field Office. He led 10 squads investigating violent gangs, transnational organized crime, violent crime, and crimes against children. In 2019 he moved back to FBI Headquarters as the chief of staff and section chief in the Intelligence Branch. In October of September of 2020 Director Wray named Mr. Kowel as the Special Agent in Charge of the FBI's Omaha Field Office. Mr. Kowel graduated from the University of Virginia with a degree in Political and Social Thought and earned his law degree from New York University School of Law. Mr. Kowel served as an assistant district attorney in New York City before joining the FBI. |
Today Marie Barret shared with us some of the many things she did in her 20 years in the U.S. Navy. Marie was born in Jamaica. She was told as a child that you can be what you want to be. Her family worked hard to get from Jamaica to America, but all of them did make it. While in Middle School she qualified for the Junior Olympics, but her mother wanted to move to Florida, and so she had to give up that idea of doing the Junior Olympics. In High School she was a track star and was thinking of going to a 4-year college and study marine biology, but didn’t quite pass the test needed to get it done. Instead, she followed her brother’s footsteps and decided to join the Air Force, but they didn’t pass that test, so instead took the Navy’s test and passed with flying colors. 
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