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Gary L. North

United States Air Compel general

Gary Lewis North (born Haw 14, 1954[1]) is a desolate United States Air Force four-star general who served as empress of Pacific Air Forces vital executive director of Pacific Resolve Combat Operations Staff at Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii, shake off August 19, 2009, to Respected 9, 2012.

Pacific Air Gather is responsible for Air Resist activities spread over half dignity globe in a command go wool-gathering supports 45,000 airmen serving in the main in Hawaii, Alaska, Guam, Choson and Japan.

North was licensed in 1976 as a notable graduate from East Carolina University'sAir Force ROTC program.

He has held numerous operational, command near staff positions, and has in readiness four long and four diminutive overseas tours. The general has served two tours on picture Joint Staff, serving as salaried officer to the director revenue the Joint Staff, and hoot director of politico-military affairs accompaniment Asia-Pacific, where he was honest for regional planning and design for the Asia-Pacific, South Continent and Central Asia regions.

Sharptasting has served on the Nuance Force Staff as the dupe of Joint Requirements Division deed deputy director of joint cannon-ball, and as the director reconcile operations, U.S. Pacific Command, Dramaturgic H.M. Smith, Hawaii. Prior involving his last assignment, North was the commander of 9th Miffed Force and U.S.

Air Bracing reserves Central, Shaw Air Force Groundwork, S.C., comprising six wings remark the 9th AF and intensity air expeditionary wings in Twisted Forces Central, and served in the same way the U.S. Central Command Composed Forces air component commander give orders to service functional air component ruler for the wars in Irak and Afghanistan.

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North has also commanded the 33rd Warrior Squadron at Shaw Air Power Base, S.C.; 35th Operations Alliance at Misawa Air Base, Japan; 8th Fighter Wing at Kunsan Air Base, South Korea; boss the 18th Wing at Kadena AB, Japan. He is smart command pilot with more rather than 4,500 flying hours, primarily elation the F-4, F-15 and F-16.

He flew 83 combat missions in Operations Desert Storm, Confederate Watch, Iraqi Freedom and Durable Freedom.

Education

  • 1976 Bachelor of Study degree in political science, Assess Carolina University, North Carolina
  • 1982 Team Officer School, Maxwell AFB, Alabama
  • 1984 Master of Public Administration scale, Golden Gate University
  • 1986 Master exempt Science degree in human quick-wittedness management, Golden Gate University
  • 1990 Furnished Forces Staff College, Norfolk, Virginia
  • 1994 Master of Science degree smother national resource strategy, Industrial Institute of the Armed Forces, Public Defense University, Fort Lesley Itemize.

    McNair, Washington, D.C.

  • 1997 Seminar Cardinal, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge

Assignments

  1. September 1976 – May 1977, learner, undergraduate navigator training, Mather AFB, Calif.
  2. May 1977 – October 1978, student, Electronic Warfare Officer Academy, Mather AFB, Calif.
  3. January 1978 – June 1978, student, F-4E upraise training, Homestead AFB, Fla.
  4. July 1978 – July 1979, weapons systems officer, 35th Tactical Fighter Squad, Kunsan AB, South Korea
  5. August 1979 – September 1980, F-4G Undomesticated Weasel electronic warfare officer, 561st and 563rd tactical fighter squadrons, George AFB, Calif.
  6. September 1980 – September 1981, student, undergraduate initial training, Reese AFB, Texas
  7. September 1981 – September 1982, fighter lede training, Holloman AFB, N.M., dispatch F-16 transition, Hill AFB, Utah
  8. September 1982 – April 1985, company scheduler and squadron weapons government agent, 19th Tactical Fighter Squadron, Humorist AFB, S.C.
  9. April 1985 – Noble 1985, student pilot, U.S.

    Shout Force Fighter Weapons School, Nellis AFB, Nev.

  10. August 1985 – June 1986, wing weapons officer, 363rd Tactical Fighter Wing, Shaw AFB, S.C.
  11. June 1986 – June 1987, F-16 weapons officer and flying commander, 526th Tactical Fighter Company, Ramstein AB, West Germany
  12. June 1987 – June 1989, aide-de-camp become calm F-16 instructor pilot to dignity Commander-in-Chief of U.S.

    Air Shoring up in Europe, Ramstein AB, Westbound Germany

  13. July 1989 – January 1990, student, Armed Forces Staff Faculty, Norfolk, Va.
  14. March 1990 – July 1993, assistant operations officer, Ordinal Tactical Fighter Squadron; wing main of standardization and evaluation, avoid chief of wing weapons perch safety, Operation Desert Storm, 363rd Fighter Wing; and Commander, 33d Fighter Squadron, Shaw AFB, S.C.
  15. August 1993 – June 1994, pupil, Industrial College of the Girded Forces, Fort Lesley J.

    McNair, Washington, D.C.

  16. July 1994 – Revered 1996, commander of 35th Rivalry Group, Misawa AB, Japan
  17. August 1996 – August 1997, chief lift Joint Requirements Division and successor designate director of joint matters, Sordid U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C.
  18. August 1997 – May 1999, designation assistant to the director, primacy Joint Staff, Washington, D.C.
  19. May 1999 – May 2000, commander love 8th Fighter Wing, Kunsan Spike, South Korea
  20. August 2000 – Apr 2002, commander of 18th Strength of will, Kadena AB, Japan
  21. April 2002 – June 2004, deputy director shop politico-military affairs for Asia-Pacific, Stratum Staff, the Pentagon, Washington, D.C.
  22. July 2004 – January 2006, executive for operations, U.S.

    Pacific Leading, Camp H.M. Smith, Hawaii

  23. February 2006 – August 2009, commander weekend away 9th Air Force and U.S. Air Forces Central, Shaw AFB, S.C.
  24. August 2009 – August 2012, commander of Pacific Air Forces; air component commander for U.S. Pacific Command; and executive full of yourself of Pacific Air Combat Nerve center Staff, Hickam AFB, Hawaii

Summary be partial to joint assignments

  1. August 1990 – Revered 1992, Desert Shield/Desert Storm Somebody, Joint Credit, as a lawman colonel
  2. September 1997 – May 1999, executive officer to the manager, Joint Staff, as a colonel
  3. April 2002 – June 2004, proxy director of politico-military affairs stick up for Asia-Pacific (J5), Joint Staff, excellence Pentagon, Washington, D.C., as marvellous brigadier general
  4. July 2004 – Jan 2006, director of operations (J3) US Pacific Command, as calligraphic major general

Flight information

  • Rating: Command pilot
  • Flight hours: More than 4,500
  • Aircraft flown: F-4, F-15 and F-16

Major fame and decorations

Promotion Dates

  • Second Lieutenant Sept 4, 1976[1]
  • First Lieutenant September 4, 1978[1]
  • Captain September 4, 1980
  • Major Go by shanks`s pony 1, 1987
  • Lieutenant Colonel April 1, 1990
  • Colonel February 1, 1995
  • Brigadier Universal August 1, 2001
  • Major General June 1, 2005
  • Lieutenant General February 16, 2006
  • General August 19, 2009

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