Frank Gorenc

Frank Gorenc ( born October 14, 1957 in Ljubljana, Yugoslavia, now Slovenia) is a general of the United States Air Force ( USAF) and since August 2, 2013 Commander of U.S. Air Forces in Europe (USAFE ), the U.S. Air Forces Africa ( AFAFRICA ) and the Allied Air Command Ramstein (AIR -COM Ramstein ) and Director of the joint Air Power Competence Centre ( JAPCC ).

Education and Career

Gorencs parents emigrated in 1962 to the United States, where Gorenc after high school the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado attended and graduated in 1979 with a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering. He then completed a one and a half years of basic flying training on the Vance Air Force Base, Oklahoma, before he was just there at first as a flight instructor for the supersonic T- 38A was active until December 1984.

Between 1984 and 1988 Gorenc was stationed as a flight leader of the 525th tactical fighter squadron on the Spangdahlem Air Base in Bitburg, from 1988. Various positions on the Air Force Base in Langley, Virginia, where he remained in changing from service until 1994 In the years to different uses also followed in other countries, such as commodore of a squadron in Kadena, Japan, and as adjutant to the commander of U.S. forces in Europe in Stuttgart.

During his career Gorenc came so far to over 4,500 flight hours on the airplane and helicopter models T- 38A, F-15C, UH -1N and C -21, also of unmanned drone MQ -1B.

Service in the rank of general

From June 2005 to July 2006 served as Commodore of the Gorenc 332 air squadron to use the airbase in Balad, Iraq, and was promoted service in that on 1 October 2005 to brigadier general. In August 2006 he was appointed as Director of the Department for scheduling and joint armed forces Affairs, Deputy Chief of Staff for use, planning and requirements determination back to the United States to the headquarters of the U.S. Air Force in Washington, DC, offset, in June 2007, then as commander of Air Force District Washington at the Andrews Air Force Base Maryland, from 1 February 2008 with the rank of major general. As of August 2008 he again served in Langley as director of air and space operations, from August 2009 under promotion to lieutenant general as commander of the U.S. 3rd Air Fleet in Rhineland-Palatinate Ramstein.

On June 4th 2013 U.S. President Barack Obama Gorenc nominated for the succession of Philip M. Breedlove as commander of U.S. Air Forces in Europe, the U.S. Air Forces Africa and Allied Air Command Ramstein as well as Director of the Joint Air Power Competence Centre; the service position had been vacant since Breedlove had taken the lead of the U.S. European Command ( USEUCOM ) in May. Gorenc finally entered the command on August 2, his promotion to General came on the same day.

Awards

Selection of decorations, sorted based on the Order of Precedence of Military Awards:

Promotions

United States Air Forces in Europe Northrop T-38 Talon Wing (military aviation unit) Learjet 35 General Atomics MQ-1 Predator Meritorious Service Medal (United States)
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