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BRIGADIER GENERAL TOM D. MILLER

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Brig. Gen. Tom D. Miller is the Commander, Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex, Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma. As the Commander, he leads a team of over 9,800 military and civilian professionals delivering combat power for America. The complex performs programmed depot maintenance and modifications on KC-135, B-1B, B-52, E-3 and Navy E6 aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul for F100, F101, F108, F110, F117, F118, F119, F135, TF33 engines, and a wide variety of commodities for the Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, and foreign military sales. He is responsible for the development and sustainment of a diverse portfolio of mission critical software for the Air Force and diverse other customers as well as world-wide aircraft battle damage repair capability for multiple weapon systems.

General Miller has served in a variety of leadership positions at squadron, group, wing and headquarters levels. He has commanded maintenance squadrons in the United States and Iraq, a maintenance group in Afghanistan a nuclear wing, and has served on the Air Staff and the Joint Staff.  Prior to his current position, he was the Vice Commander, Air Force Sustainment Center.

EDUCATION
1990 Bachelor of Business Administration in Management, University of Texas at Arlington 
1993 Master of Business Administration in Aviation, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
1995 Squadron Officer School, Maxwell AFB, Ala.
2003 Air Command and Staff College, Master of Military Art and Science, Maxwell AFB, Ala.
2006 Air War College, by correspondence
2008 Advanced Program in Logistics Technology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
2009 Joint and Combined Warfare School, Joint Forces Staff College, Norfolk, Va. 
2010 National Defense Fellowship with Certification in Public Leadership, The Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C.
2011 USAF Leadership Enhancement Program, Center for Creative Leadership, Greensboro, N.C.
2016 Continuous Process Improvement for Executives, Colorado Springs, Colo.

ASSIGNMENTS

1. April 1991 - August 1991, Student, Aircraft Maintenance Munitions Officer Course, Chanute AFB, Ill.
2. September 1991 - August 1993, Armament Flight Commander, 58th Maintenance Squadron and Officer-in-Charge of Maintenance, 555th Fighter Squadron, Luke AFB, Ariz.
3. September 1993 - December 1995, Squadron Maintenance/Logistics Test Officer, F-15 and then F-16 Combined Test Forces, Edwards AFB, Calif.
4. January 1996 - May 1997, Sortie Generation Flight Commander, 492nd Fighter Squadron, RAF Lakenheath, England
5. June 1997- April 1999, Installation Deployment Officer, 48th Fighter Wing, RAF Lakenheath, England
6. May 1999 - June 2001, Chief, Company Grade then Field Grade Maintenance Officer Assignments, Air Force Personnel Center, Randolph AFB, Texas
7. June 2001 - July 2002, Executive Officer to the Director of Assignments, Air Force Personnel Center, Randolph AFB, Texas
8. August 2002 - June 2003, Student, Air Command and Staff College, Maxwell AFB, Ala.
9. July 2003 - July 2005, Commander, 4th Component Maintenance Squadron, Seymour Johnson AFB,
N.C. (Sep 04 - Jan 05, 332d Expeditionary Maintenance Squadron Commander, Balad Air Base, Iraq)
10. July 2005 - June 2006, Deputy Chief, Program Integration Branch "A4/7 Engine Room" Directorate of Resource Integration, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C.
11. July 2006 - June 2007, Executive Officer to the Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics, Installations and Mission Support, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C.
12. July 2007 - June 2009, Chief, Maintenance Division, Directorate of Logistics (J4), The Joint Staff, the Pentagon, Washington, D.C.
13. July 2009 - May 2010, National Defense Fellow, the Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C.
14. June 2010 - June 2011, Commander, 455th Expeditionary Maintenance Group, Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan
15. July 2011 - July 2012, Vice Commander, Ogden Air Logistics Center, Hill Air Force Base, Utah
16. July 2012 - July 2013, Deputy Commander for Maintenance, Ogden Air Logistics Complex, Hill AFB, Utah
17. July 2013 - June 2015, Commander, 377th Air Base Wing, Kirtland AFB, N.M.
18. June 2015 - June 2017, Vice Commander, Air Force Sustainment Center, Tinker AFB, Okla.
19. June 2017 – present, Commander, Oklahoma Air Logistics Complex, Tinker AFB, Okla.

SUMMARY OF JOINT ASSIGNMENTS
1. July 2007 - June 2009, Chief, Maintenance Division, Joint Staff J-4, The Pentagon, Washington, D.C. as a lieutenant colonel

MAJOR AWARDS AND DECORATIONS

Legion of Merit with oak leaf cluster
Bronze Star Medal with oak leaf cluster
Defense Meritorious Service Medal
Meritorious Service Medal with three oak leaf clusters
Air Force Commendation Medal with oak leaf cluster
Afghanistan Campaign Medal with one device
Iraq Campaign Medal with one device
National Defense Service Medal with one device
Global War on Terrorism Service Medal
Nuclear Deterrence Operation Medal with three oak leaf clusters
NATO Medal

OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS

1995 USAF Lieutenant General Leo Marquez Award Company Grade Officer of the Year
2011- 2013 National President, Logistics Officer Association

EFFECTIVE DATES OF PROMOTION

Second Lieutenant Nov. 1, 1990
First Lieutenant Nov. 1, 1992
Captain Nov. 1, 1994
Major Dec. 1, 2001
Lieutenant Colonel March 1, 2006
Colonel Oct. 1, 2009
Brigadier General May 3, 2016


(Current as of June 2017)