Lieutenant Colonel Kukowski was born in New Zealand and raised in Saudi Arabia. He commissioned in 2007 through the U.S. Marine Corps Officer Candidate School program after graduating from the University of North Florida with a Bachelor of Arts in Business Management.
Following the Basic School and Logistics Officer Course, he began his career with Combat Logistics Regiment 3 in Okinawa, deploying in 2009 as a Truck Platoon Commander with the Marine Expeditionary Brigade–Afghanistan during the Helmand Province surge. Upon return, he assumed command of the General Support Motor Transport Company, participating in multiple Pacific theater exercises while completing the Marine Corps Expeditionary Warfare School.
In 2012, he attended the U.S. Army Logistics University Combined Logistics Captains Career Course, graduating as an honor graduate, before reporting to Marine Special Operations Command. From 2013 to 2016, he served across 2d and 3d Marine Raider Battalions as a Logistics Officer, Logistics Team Leader, and MSOC S-4. During this period, he deployed to North and West Africa with Joint Special Operations Task Force–Trans Sahara and later to northern Iraq in support of Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force–Iraq, where he helped establish the first Joint Special Operations Task Force headquarters in Erbil during the opening phase of Operation INHERENT RESOLVE.
In 2016, Lieutenant Colonel Kukowski joined the Defense Logistics Agency Indo-Pacific as a Logistics Plans Officer, DLA Liaison Officer to USINDOPACOM/SOCPAC, and Joint Operations Officer in the Indo-Pacific Logistics Operations Center. His work integrated joint sustainment planning across the theater and supported multiple operational contingencies. During this tour, he completed Joint Professional Military Education II at the Joint Forces Staff College and the Marine Corps University Command and Staff College.
From 2019 to 2021, he served as Operations Officer and later Executive Officer for Combat Logistics Regiment 17. His tenure included participation in I MEF’s Native Fury 20 exercise and deployment with Special Purpose Marine Air Ground Task Force–Crisis Response–Central Command 21.1, culminating in support to the Afghanistan Noncombatant Evacuation Operation during Operation ALLIES REFUGE. He subsequently completed a year-long corporate fellowship at FedEx Global Headquarters as the Commandant’s Military Fellow, focusing on global distribution networks and enterprise logistics in 2022-2023.
In 2023, he joined I MEF Headquarters as the Future Operations Officer for the G 4, where he served as the lead planner for MRF-D, MRF-SEA, Exercises Balikatan 2024 and 2025, culminating in I MEF’s Joint Task Force certification in May 2025. In 2025, he reported to the 3d Marine Littoral Regiment as the Regimental Logistics Officer, supporting stand-in force development and INDOPACOM-focused experimentation.
In June 2026, LtCol Kukowski assumed command of the 3d Littoral Logistics Battalion, whose ceremony was conducted at Clark Air Base, Philippines. He subsequently graduated from the Army War College in Carlisle, PA, the same month.
LtCol Kukowski is a graduate of the Parachutist Airborne Course, Foreign Security Force Advisor, Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape Full Spectrum Level C, Marine Corps Instructor of Water Survival school, Army Logistics University Joint Logistics Course, and Marine Corps Logistics Operations Group Advanced Logistics Operations Course. He has a Master’s Degree in International Relations from New England College.