Mark Welsh
Mark Anthony Welsh III. ( Born January 26, 1953 in San Antonio, Texas) is a general of the United States Air Force ( USAF) and since August 10, 2012 Office of the Chief of Staff of the Air Force ( CSAF ).
Education and Career
Welsh visited in 1972 first the Wentworth Military Academy in Lexington and graduated in 1976 at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs with a Bachelor of Science degree. This was followed up in 1984 training on different aircraft types, from 1984 Welsh was then itself became an instructor. Between 1984 and 1986 Welsh completed correspondence courses at the Squadron Officer School, the Air Command and Staff College and the Air War College in 1987 followed by a Master 's degree in Computer Resource Management from Webster University, Missouri. In the 1990s, Welsh served in varying uses, including in South Korea.
During his career Welsh came so far to over 3300 flight hours on the patterns F- 16, A -10, T -37 and TG -7A.
Service in the rank of general
As of June 1999 Welsh was commanding officer for training at the U.S. Air Force Academy, where he was promoted on 1 August 2000 to brigadier general; it was followed by a two -year stay in Germany, where he was stationed as a Director of the Policy Planning Staff of the U.S. Air Forces Europe in Rhineland-Palatinate Ramstein.
In 2003, he was transferred back to the United States in the staff of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force and promoted to major general on August 1.
Between June 2005 and June 2007, he was deputy director of the Joint Functional Component Command for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance of the U.S. Strategic Command in Washington, DC, then deputy commander of the Air Education and Training Command, from 9 December 2008 at the rank of lieutenant general.
From December 2010 Welsh commanded under promotion to General, the U.S. Air Forces Europe and Allied Air Command - again in Ramstein - while serving as the Director of the Joint Air Power Competence Centre of NATO.
On 10 May 2012, the then U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta Welsh nominated to succeed Norton A. Schwartz Chief of Staff of the Air Force. The Senate confirmed the nomination on August 2, Welshs was finally sworn in on August 10; He is the 23rd officer service in that capacity since the introduction in 1947.
Quality Welsh Office is also a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Awards
Selection of decorations, sorted on the basis of the Order of Precedence of Military Awards:
- Defense Distinguished Service Medal (2 × )
- Air Force Distinguished Service Medal (2 × )
- Defense Superior Service Medal (2 × )
- Legion of Merit (2 × )
- Distinguished Flying Cross (2 × )
- Meritorious Service Medal (3 × )
- Air Medal (2 × )
- Joint Service Commendation Medal
- Air Force Commendation Medal
- National Defense Service Medal (3 × )
- Southwest Asia Service Medal (2 × )