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COLONEL MICHAEL G. MILLER
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Colonel Michael G. Miller is the 439th Operations Group commander, Westover Air Reserve Base, Mass. As the commander he is responsible for aircrew training, standardization, and operational command and control of 16 C-5B Galaxy aircraft, an operational support squadron, an operational aeromedical evacuation squadron, and an airlift control flight. He was assigned to this position in November 2011.
His experience spans a wide variety of aviation functions and aircraft, and includes both special operations rotary wing and strategic fixed-wing aviation. Additionally, Colonel Miller's experience includes extensive joint operations on a worldwide level as/with Tier One special operations forces, and attended in residence joint PME.
Colonel Miller was commissioned in August 1985 as a ROTC graduate at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania. He has served as a special operations UH-1N gunship pilot, MH-53J Pavelow evaluator pilot, chief of group standardization/evaluation division at an Air Education and Training Command formal schoolhouse, special operations MH-60G Pavehawk instructor pilot, graduate of the USAF Weapons school, C-17 JPADS flight-lead evaluator pilot, airlift squadron operations officer, and most recently a graduate of United States Army War College in residence. He is a command pilot with nearly 8,000 flying hours.
EDUCATION
1985 Bachelor of Science degree in Earth/Space Science, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania
1996 Master of Science in Aerospace Science, Embry-Riddle University, Fla.
2004 Air Command and Staff College (correspondence)
2008 Air War College (correspondence)
2011 US Army Air War College, Carlisle Penn.
ASSIGNMENTS
1. January 1986- July 1987, Student/Graduate UPT-H, 3588th Flying Training Squadron, Fort Rucker, Ala.
2. July 1987- May 1988, UH-1N Gunship Pilot, Det 1/1st Special Operations Wing, Howard Air Force Base, Panama
3. May- August 1988, graduate MH-53J School, 1550th TTG, Kirtland AFB, N,M,
4. August 1988 - August 1990, tactics officer, MH-53J, 20th Special Operations Squadron, Hurlburt Field, Fla.
5. August 1990- October 1991, chief of tactics, MH-53J instructor pilot, 31st Special Operations Squadron, Clark Air Base, Phillippines
6. October 1991 -April 1993, chief of standardization/evaluation, 31st Special Operations Squadron, Osan
Air Base, Korea
7. April 1993 -April 1997, chief of group standardization/evaluation, 58th Operations Group, Kirtland AFB N.M.
8. April1997- June 1998, chief of scheduling/current ops, 305th Rescue Squadron, Davis-Monthan Air Force
Base, Ariz.
9. July-December 1998, USAF Weapons School graduate, Nellis AFB, Nev.
10. January 1999 - December 2000, weapons officer instructor, 304th Rescue Squadron, Portland. Ore.
11. January 2001 -April 2008, pilot resource manager/assistant deputy commander tor operations, 97th
Airlift Squadron, McChord AFB, Wash.
12. April 2008 - June 2010, Operations Officer, 326th Airlift Squadron, Dover AFB, Del.
13. June 2010- July 2011, graduate, US Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, Pa.
14. November 2011 -present, 439th Operations Group commander, Westover ARB, Mass.
SPECIAL QUALIFICATIONS
Evaluator Pilot, Instructor Pilot, Special Operations Aviation; UH-60 Pilot; Air Operations Officer; Weapons and Tactics Instructor; Joint Experience; Special Operations; Pistol (Expert); Command Pilot; Operations, Plans and Training; MH-53 Pilot, C-17 Pilot
EFFECTIVE DATES OF PROMOTION
Second Lieutenant Aug. 5, 1985
First Lieutenant Nov. 7, 1987
Captain Nov. 7, 1989
Major Oct. 1, 1998
Lieutenant Colonel Oct. 1, 2005
Colonel March 2012
(Current as of May 2013)
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