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CHIEF MASTER SERGEANT EDUARDO MIRELES
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Chief Master Sergeant Eduardo Mireles is the Command Chief Master Sergeant, 435th Air Ground Operations Wing, Ramstein Air Base, Germany. The wing is one of two specialized wings in the Air Force focused on providing battlefield Airmen, multi-functional and rapidly deployable capabilities that are tailorable to respond to crises throughout the world. Specific areas of expertise include tactical air control-party and battlefield weather, air base opening and operations, command and control, theater-wide communications, maintenance, security, and weather reports. The wing is comprised of 4 groups, 11 squadrons, and 6 detachments with more than 1,500 personnel stationed at 13 bases in Germany and Italy. As the Command Chief, Chief Mireles is responsible for the health and welfare, professional development, training and combat readiness, discipline and effective utilization of the organization's enlisted personnel.
Chief Mireles grew up in Brownsville, Texas and entered the Air Force in November 1987, volunteering for duty into the Tactical Air Control Party career field. He has served in both conventional and Special Forces units at all levels of squadron and group leadership. Chief Mireles has served in four Combatant Commands and deployed for combat in Operations JUST CAUSE, DESERT SHIELD, DESERT STORM, IRAQI FREEDOM and ENDURING FREEDOM. Chief Mireles is a qualified Joint Terminal Attack Controller (JTAC), JTAC-Instructor, and Standardization and Evaluation Examiner. Before assuming his current position, he served as the Chief Enlisted Manager for the 1st Air Support Operations Group, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington.
EDUCATION
1991 Noncommissioned Officer Preparatory Course, Pope AFB, NC
1991 Air Ground Operations School Terminal Attack Controller Course, Hurlburt Field, FL
2000 Noncommissioned Officer Academy, McGhee Tyson Air National Guard Base, TN
2002 Associates Degree, Information Systems Management, Community College of the Air Force
2005 Senior Noncommissioned Officer Academy, Maxwell AFB, AL
2009 Chief Master Sergeant Leadership Course, Maxwell AFB, AL
2011 Command Chief Candidate's Orientation Course, Lackland AFB, TX
2012 Professional Manager Certification, Community College of the Air Force
2012 Senior Enlisted Joint PME Course, Joint Forces Staff College, Norfolk, VA
ASSIGNMENTS
1. November 1987 - January 1988, Trainee, Basic Military Training, Lackland AFB, Texas
2. January 1988 - May 1988, Student, Tactical Air Command and Control Course, Hurlburt Field, Florida
3. May 1988 - January 1992, Tactical Air Control Party Journeyman, Det 1 507th Tactical Air Control
Wing (82d Airborne Division), Fort Bragg, North Carolina
4. January 1992 - July 1995, Special Operations Tactical Air Control Party, Joint Communications Unit,
Fort Bragg, North Carolina
5. July 1995 - January 1999, 3d Special Forces Group NCOIC, 22d Air Support Operations Flight, Fort Bragg, NC
6. January 1999 - October 2001, Supervisor Special Operations Advance Rapid Communications Team, Joint Communications Unit, Fort Bragg, North Carolina
7. October 2001 - July 2004, Superintendent Fire Support Operations, 24th Special Tactics Squadron, Pope Air Force Base, North Carolina
8. July 2004 - July 2007, Squadron Superintendent, 15th Air Support Operations Squadron (3d Infantry Division), Fort Stewart, Georgia
9. July 2007 - May 2009, Operations Superintendent, 4th Air Support Operations Group (V Corps), Heidelberg, Germany
10. May 2009 - March 2010, Chief Enlisted Manager, 4th Air Support Operations Group (V Corps), Heidelberg, Germany
11. March 2010 - June 2010, Operations Chief, 4th Air Support Operations Group (V Corps), Heidelberg, Germany
12. July 2010 - Jun 2012, Chief Enlisted Manager, 1st Air Support Operations Group (I Corps), Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington
13. Jun 2012 - Present, Command Chief, 435th Air Ground Operations Wing, Ramstein Air Base, Germany
MAJOR AWARDS AND DECORATIONS
Bronze Star with one oak leaf cluster
Defense Meritorious Service Medal with one oak leaf cluster
Meritorious Service Medal with three oak leaf clusters
Air Medal
Joint Service Commendation Medal with three oak leaf clusters
Air Force Commendation Medal with one oak leaf cluster
Army Commendation Medal
Joint Service Achievement with one oak leaf cluster
Air Force Achievement with one oak leaf cluster
Joint Meritorious Unit Award with one oak leaf cluster
Meritorious Unit Award
AF Outstanding Unit Award with Valor Device with five oak leaf clusters
Combat Readiness Medal with ten oak leaf clusters
OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS
US Army Airborne
US Army Master Parachutist
US Army Air Assault and Rappel Master
US Army Jungle Warfare Expert
US Army Special Forces Survival, Escape, Resistance and Evasion
US Army Pathfinder
US Army Military Freefall Master Parachutist
US Navy Combat Diver
British and Canadian Jump Wings
EFFECTIVE DATE OF PROMOTION
Chief Master Sergeant May 2009
(Current as of July 2012)
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