Friedrich Wilhelm Ploeger (Fritz)

Professional History Highlights

Senior Mentor and Consultant Fritz Ploeger is a Stellar Advisor who retired from the Organization, the German as a Lieutenant General after nearly 46 German Armed Forces Defense years of service. His final military posting was as the Deputy Academy, and the German Air Force Commander of NATO Ramstein at

Deputy Commander , . He now resides in Sankt NATO Allied Air Command Augustin, Germany and serves as a Senior Mentor and Ramstein Air Base, Germany Consultant to NATO, the German Armed Forces Defense Academy, and the German Air Force. Executive Director NATO Joint Air Power Competence Before his Ramstein assignment, General Ploeger had a triple Centre (JAPCC) , Germany hatted function at Kalkar, Germany. As Commander of the German Air Force Air Operations Command (GAFAOC), he Commander was responsible for a unique German nucleus of staff that, NATO Combined Air Operations Centre after augmentation, has the capability to execute operational (CAOC-Uedem) planning as well as command and control of Air Force Uedem, Germany Operations at tactical and operational levels. As Commander

Commander Combined Air Operations Centre Uedem (CAOC Uedem), German Air Force Air Operations General Ploeger was responsible for planning, directing, Command (GAFAOC) tasking, and coordinating air operations of allocated forces Kalkar, Germany and NATO Integrated Air Defense assets. His third function was that of Executive Director of the Joint Air Power Commander Competence Centre (JAPCC), in which he supported the 2nd German Air Force Division Birkenfeld, Germany Director JAPCC as Joint Air Advisor to Supreme Allied Commander Transformation (SACT) in order to facilitate Commander joint air power transformation at strategic level. German Air Force Communications and Information Systems Command General Ploeger joined the German Air Force in 1967 and Cologne, Germany was trained to become an Air Defense Controller. He went through numerous command and staff assignments. In 1999, Professional Affiliations he became Commander of Air Force Communications and President, Rotary Club Troisdorf Information System Command. This posting was followed by Troisdorf, Germany an assignment as Assistant Chief of the Armed Forces Staff of the Military Policy and Arms Control Division at the Speaker Federal Ministry of Defense in 2000, before he assumed Community of Former CIS Officers of command of 2nd German Air Force Division in 2003. the German Air Force

Education As a Stellar Advisor, Fritz has provided senior leader mentoring during several Ballistic (BMD) General Staff Officer Course (2 years) senior leader seminars and table top exercises for NATO and German Armed Forces Defense Academy U.S. entities.

Seminaire Franco-Allemande Security Clearance: NATO Secret IHEDN, Paris,

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