Obama picks female non-pilot to be commander of Pacific Air Forces

[Pooky 3,786]

The fact that she is a woman has no bearing on the average service person's opinion of her fitness for the position. Justified, or not, her not being a pilot is what is driving things.

The US Navy equivalent has ship command experience, the US Army combat unit command experience. The USAF likes it's top brass to know what it takes to fly into a combat environment.

[JohnR! 5,495]

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Justified, or not, her not being a pilot is what is driving things.

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I agree with this. The less aware believe she is being appointed just because she is a woman. In addition being nominated by Obama aggravates the uncontrollable knee jerk reaction from the fringes. Som epeople are stuck in the 1950s.... Meanwhile nobody has bothered to look at her record... Pray, what could this woman have to offer besides baking tips? The horror!! The humanityy!

http://www.af.mil/AboutUs/Biographies/Display/tabid/225/Article/108119/lieutenant-general-lori-j-robinson.aspx

Selected for reassignment as Commander, Headquarters Pacific Air Forces; Air Component Commander for U.S. Pacific Command; and Executive Director, Pacific Air Combat Operations Staff, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii

Lt. Gen. Lori J. Robinson is Vice Commander, Air Combat Command, Langley Air Force Base, Va. She assists the Commander in organizing, training, equipping and maintaining combat-ready forces for rapid deployment and employment while ensuring strategic air defense forces are ready to meet the challenges of peacetime air sovereignty and wartime defense. ACC operates more than 1,300 aircraft, 22 wings, 14 bases, and more than 500 organizations operating at more than 50 locations worldwide with 83,838 active-duty and civilian personnel. When mobilized, the Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve contribute more than 700 aircraft and 51,134 people to ACC. As the Combat Air Forces lead agent, ACC develops strategy, doctrine, concepts, tactics, and procedures for air and space power employment. The command provides conventional and information warfare forces to all unified commands to ensure air, space and information superiority for warfighters and national decision-makers. ACC can also be called upon to assist national agencies with intelligence, surveillance and crisis response capabilities.

General Robinson entered the Air Force in 1982 through the ROTC program at the University of New Hampshire. She has served in a variety of positions as an air battle manager, including instructor and Commander of the Command and Control Operations Division at the Air Force Fighter Weapons School, as well as Chief of Tactics in the 965th Airborne Warning and Control Squadron. She has commanded an operations group, a training wing, an air control wing and has deployed as Vice Commander of the 405th Air Expeditionary Wing, leading more than 2,000 Airmen flying B-1 Lancer, KC-135 Stratotanker and E-3 Sentry in operations Enduring and Iraqi Freedom. General Robinson was an Air Force Fellow at The Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., and served at the Pentagon as Director of the Secretary of the Air Force and Chief of Staff of the Air Force Executive Action Group. She has also been Deputy Director for Force Application and Support, Directorate of Force Structure, Resources and Assessment, Joint Staff, the Pentagon, Washington, D.C. Following this General Robinson was Director, Legislative Liaison, Office of the Secretary of the Air Force, the Pentagon, Washington, D.C and prior to assuming her current position General Robinson was the Deputy Commander, U.S. Air Forces Central Command; Deputy, Combined Force Air Component Commander, U.S. Central Command, Southwest Asia.

EDUCATION

1981 Bachelor of Arts degree in English, University of New Hampshire, Durham

1986 Squadron Officer School, Maxwell AFB, Ala.

1986 Distinguished graduate, Air Force Fighter Weapons School, Nellis AFB, Nev.

1992 Master of Arts in education leadership and management, Troy State University, Ala.

1995 Master's degree in national security and strategic studies, College of Naval Command and Staff, Naval War College, Newport, R.I.

2001 Air War College, by correspondence

2002 Air Force Fellow, The Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C.

2005 Senior Executive Fellows Program, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

2013 Leadership at the Peak, Center for Creative Leadership, Colorado Springs, Colo.

ASSIGNMENTS

1. January 1982 - June 1982, Student, Basic Air Weapons Controller School, Tyndall AFB, Fla.

2. June 1982 - January 1983, Air Weapons Controller, Homestead AFB, Fla.

3. January 1983 - January 1985, Instructor Air Weapons Controller and live-fire senior director, 81st Range Control Squadron, Tyndall AFB, Fla.

4. January 1985 - February 1986, Chief of Training; and Chief of Standards and Evaluations, 848th Air Control and Weapons Squadron, Wallace Air Station, the Philippines

5. February 1986 - September 1986, Air Weapons Controller, Air Weapons Controller Division, Air Force Fighter Weapons School, Nellis AFB, Nev.

6. September 1986 - December 1986, Student, Air Force Fighter Weapons School, Nellis AFB, Nev.

7. December 1986 - October 1989, Instructor and Course Manager, Air Weapon Control Division, Air Force Fighter Weapons School, Nellis AFB, Nev.

8. October 1989 - August 1992, Chief of Current Operations and command briefer, Headquarters Pacific Air Forces, Hickam AFB, Hawaii

9. August 1992 - May 1993, Air Weapons Controller, 552nd Air Control Wing, Tinker AFB, Okla.

10. June 1993 - June 1994, Chief, Weapons and Tactics Branch, 965th Airborne Warning and Control Squadron, Tinker AFB, Okla.

11. July 1994 - June 1995, Student, College of Naval Command and Staff, Naval War College, Newport, R.I.

12. June 1995 - September 1995, Student, Armed Forces Staff College, Norfolk, Va.

13. September 1995 - December 1997, Command, Control and Communication Officer, Deputy Chief of Staff, and executive assistant to the Director, Defense Information Systems Agency, Arlington, Va.

14. December 1997 - June 1998, Student, mission crew commander training, Nellis AFB, Nev.

15. June 1998 - February 2000, Commander, Command and Control Operations Division, Air Force Weapons School, Nellis AFB, Nev.

16. February 2000 - July 2001, Executive Officer to the Commander, Air Combat Command, Langley AFB, Va.

17. July 2001 - June 2002, Air Force Fellow, The Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C.

18. June 2002 - August 2004, Commander, 552nd Operations Group, Tinker AFB, Okla. (March 2003 - May 2003, Vice Commander, 405th Air Expeditionary Wing, Southwest Asia)

19. August 2004 - August 2005, Commander, 17th Training Wing, Goodfellow AFB, Texas

20. August 2005 - September 2006, Director, Secretary of the Air Force and Chief of Staff of the Air Force Executive Action Group, the Pentagon, Washington, D.C.

21. September 2006 - May 2007, Chief, Air Force House Liaison Office, Legislative Liaison, Office of the Secretary of the Air Force, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, the Pentagon, Washington, D.C.

22. May 2007 - August 2008, Commander, 552nd Air Control Wing, Tinker AFB, Okla.

23. September 2008 - October 2010, Deputy Director for Force Application and Support, Directorate of Force Structure, Resources and Assessment, Joint Staff, the Pentagon, Washington, D.C.

24. October 2010 - June 2012, Director, Legislative Liaison, Office of the Secretary of the Air Force, the Pentagon, Washington, D.C.

25. June 2012 - April 2013, Deputy Commander, U.S. Air Forces Central Command; Deputy, Combined Force Air Component Commander, U.S. Central Command, Southwest Asia.

26. May 2013 - present, Vice Commander, Air Combat Command, Langley AFB, Va.

SUMMARY OF JOINT ASSIGNMENTS

1. September 1995 - December 1997, command, Control and Communication Officer, Deputy Chief of Staff, and Executive Assistant to the Director, Defense Information Systems Agency, Arlington, Va., as a major

2. September 2008 - October 2010, Deputy Director for Force Application and Support, Directorate of Force Structure, Resources and Assessment, Joint Staff, the Pentagon, Washington, D.C., as a brigadier general

3. June 2012 - April 2013, Deputy Commander, United States Air Forces Central Command and Deputy Combined Forces Air Component Commander, Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, as a major general

FLIGHT INFORMATION

Rating: Senior Air Battle Manager

Flight hours: More than 900

Aircraft: E-3B/C and E-8C

MAJOR AWARDS AND DECORATIONS

Distinguished Service Medal

Defense Superior Service Medal

Legion of Merit with two oak leaf clusters

Bronze Star Medal with oak leaf cluster

Defense Meritorious Service Medal

Meritorious Service Medal with three oak leaf clusters

Aerial Achievement Medal

Air Force Commendation Medal with two oak leaf clusters

EFFECTIVE DATES OF PROMOTION

Second Lieutenant May 24, 1981

First Lieutenant Sept. 11, 1983

Captain Sept. 11, 1985

Major Jan. 1, 1994

Lieutenant Colonel July 1, 1998

Colonel Aug. 1, 2002

Brigadier General July 22, 2008

Major General May 1, 2011

Lieutenant General May 20, 2013

(Current as of July 2014)

Edited July 19, 2014 by JohnR!

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

Go out and fin me a qualified candidate who is a woman. Not go out and find the most qualified candidate. That is the problem

How would it gone over if it had been, Go fiind me the most qualified candidate who is a white male ?

[JohnR! 5,495]

Go out and fin me a qualified candidate who is a woman. Not go out and find the most qualified candidate. That is the problem

How would it gone over if it had been, Go fiind me the most qualified candidate who is a white male ?

What if god was one of us? Do you know the way to San Jose? Why do fools fall in love?

So many unanswered questions in this world... So much speculation...

How about we get back on topic?

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

What if god was one of us? Do you know the way to San Jose? Why do fools fall in love?

So many unanswered questions in this world... So much speculation...

How about we get back on topic?

I thought the topic was a non pilot got picked to be a 4 star, which i was discussing. which topic are you talking about, I missed corny old love songs topic

[JohnR! 5,495]

I thought the topic was a non pilot got picked to be a 4 star, which i was discussing. which topic are you talking about, I missed corny old love songs topic

Yes, that is the topic. Glad you remember.