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BRIGADIER GENERAL DAVID J. BUCK
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Brig. Gen. David J. Buck is the Vice Commander, U.S. Air Force Warfare Center, Nellis Air Force Base, Nev. The USAFWC's mission is to shape the way our forces fight through operational testing, tactics development, and advanced training in air, space, and cyberspace at the operational and tactical levels. The center provides a means to equip the force with proven technology, current tactics, advanced academic training and an opportunity to practice integrated force employment. The center executes five tasks: it certifies weapon systems for combat; develops joint, integrated, combat employment tactics for the Air Force, U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps; graduates advanced warfighting experts from six unique schools; provides joint, integrated exercise venues for Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps and Army units; and delivers solutions to immediate combat problems and new innovations to all warfighters. The USAFWC is organized under Air Combat Command into four wings and one named activity with more than 10,000 Airmen serving in the 53rd Wing, 57th Wing, 99th Air Base Wing, 505th Command and Control Wing and The Nevada Test and Training Range.
General Buck received his commission in 1986 as a distinguished graduate of Officer Training School. His career has spanned a wide variety of operational, test and evaluation and staff assignments. His operational experience includes missile operations, space launch, satellite command and control, space force enhancement and space control. General Buck has served on The Joint Staff as principal military adviser to The Chairman of The Joint Chiefs of Staff for Coalition Management and the Deputy Director for Plans and Programs, Headquarters Air Force Space Command where he formulated the command's Program Objective Memorandum. Prior to his current assignment, he served a one-year deployment as the Director of Space Forces for U.S. Air Forces Central, Southwest Asia.
General Buck has commanded at the squadron, group and wing levels.
EDUCATION
1986 Bachelor's degree in business administration, Summa Cum Laude, Kansas Newman University, Wichita, Kan.
1988 Master's degree in business administration, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, S.D.
1991 Distinguished graduate, Squadron Officer School, Maxwell AFB, Ala.
1997 Master's degree in national security and strategic studies, Naval War College, Newport, R.I.
2003 Distinguished graduate, Master's degree in national resource strategy, National Defense University, Fort Lesley J. McNair, Washington, D.C.
2007 Leadership Development Program, Center for Creative Leadership, Greensboro, N.C.
2008 National Security Management, The George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
2009 Enterprise Leadership Seminar, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va.
2009 Senior Executive Fellow, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
ASSIGNMENTS
1. October 1986 - September 1991, missile combat crew commander, standardization evaluation combat crew commander and emergency war order instructor, 44th Strategic Missile Wing, Ellsworth AFB, S.D.
2. September 1991 - August 1993, Top Hand Professional Development Program, 576th Test Squadron, Vandenberg AFB, Calif.
3. August 1993 - July 1996, aide-de-camp to the Commander, 20th Air Force, F.E. Warren AFB, Wyo.
4. July 1996 - June 1997, student, Naval War College, Newport, R.I.
5. June 1997 - June 1999, Chief, Current Force Application, Headquarters Air Force Space Command, Peterson AFB, Colo.
6. June 1999 - June 2000, speechwriter, commander's action group, Headquarters Air Force Space Command, Peterson AFB, Colo.
7. June 2000 - July 2002, Commander, 1st Space Launch Squadron, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla.
8. July 2002 - June 2003, student, National Defense University, Washington, D.C. 9. June 2003 - June 2005, Chief, Multilateral Affairs Division, J-5, The Joint Staff, Washington, D.C.
10. June 2005 - June 2006, Commander, 821st Air Base Group, Thule Air Base, Greenland.
11. June 2006 - August 2007, Deputy Director of Strategic Plans and Programs, Headquarters Air Force Space Command, Peterson AFB, Colo.
12. August 2007 - June 2008, Vice Commander, 50th Space Wing, Schriever AFB, Colo.
13. June 2008 - April 2010, Commander, 30th Space Wing, Vandenberg AFB, Calif.
14. May 2010 - May 2011, Director of Space Forces, U.S. Air Forces Central, Southwest Asia
15. June 2011 - Present, Vice Commander, U.S. Air Force Warfare Center, Nellis AFB, Nev.
SUMMARY OF JOINT ASSIGNMENTS
June 2003 - June 2005, Chief, Multilateral Affairs Division, J-5, The Joint Staff, Washington, D.C. as a colonel
MAJOR AWARDS AND DECORATIONS
Defense Superior Service Medal
Legion of Merit Medal with one oak leaf cluster
Bronze Star Medal
Defense Meritorious Service Medal
Meritorious Service Medal with three oak leaf clusters
Joint Service Commendation Medal
Air Force Commendation Medal with one oak leaf cluster
Air Force Achievement Medal with one oak leaf cluster
EFFECTIVE DATES OF PROMOTION
Second Lieutenant June 10, 1986
First Lieutenant June 10, 1988
Captain June 10, 1990
Major Aug. 1, 1996
Lieutenant Colonel May 1, 2000
Colonel July 1, 2005
Brigadier General May 6, 2011
(Current as of July 2011)
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