UNITED STATES AIR FORCE

LIEUTENANT DUC L. HO

Lieutenant Colonel Duc L. Ho is the Commander of the Air Force Element, Naval Postgraduate School (NPS), Monterey, California. He leads a unit of 130 Air Force Officer and Enlisted students selected to attend NPS in-residence programs. He also conducts professional, personal, and academic mentoring for officers and enlisted personnel destined for future senior leadership positions world-wide.

Lt Col Ho received his commission in 2004 from the U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado. As a mobility pilot, he has flown the KC-135R/T and MC-12W aircraft supporting contingency operations in Iraq and Afghanistan providing , intelligence, and reconnaissance.

In 2014, Lt Col Ho was selected for the Foreign Area Officer developmental program. He later served at Headquarters as the Southeast Asia Branch Chief, as well as Country Director for Singapore and Vietnam. Prior to assuming his current position, Lieutenant Colonel Ho was the Chief of Flight Safety, 6th Air Refueling , MacDill Air Force Base, Florida.

Lt Col Ho is a command pilot with more than 3800 flight hours and over 2,100 combat hours in the KC-135R/T and MC-12W, serving in OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM and OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM.

EDUCATION 2004 Bachelor of Science in Operations Research, Air Force Academy, CO 2006 Undergraduate Pilot Training, Vance AFB, OK 2009 Master of Business Administration, Touro University International (TUI), CA 2011 Squadron Officer School, Maxwell AFB, AL 2015 Air Command and Staff College by Correspondence 2016 Master of Arts in National Security Affairs, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA 2020 Aircraft Mishaps Investigation Course, Albuquerque, NM.

ASSIGNMENTS 1. August 2004 – July 2005, Joint Specialized Undergraduate Pilot Training, T-34 Student, NAS Pensacola, FL 2. July 2005 – September 2006, Joint Specialized Undergraduate Pilot Training, T-1 Student, Vance AFB, OK 3. September 2006 – March 2009, KC-135 Aircraft Commander, Flight Safety Officer, 912th Air Refueling Squadron, Grand Forks AFB, ND 4. July 2009 – February 2010, MC-12W Flight Commander, 362nd Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron, Joint Base Balad, Iraq 5. June 2010 – November 2013, KC-135 Instructor/Evaluator Pilot, Flight Commander, and Chief of Standardization and Evaluation, 91st Air Refueling Squadron, MacDill AFB, FL 6. November 2013 – December 2014, Wing Executive Officer, 6th Air Mobility Wing, MacDill AFB, FL 7. January 2015 – July 2016, Student, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA 8. August 2016 – July 2019, Southeast Asia Country Director and Southeast Asia Branch Chief, International Affairs Division, Headquarters Pacific Air Force, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, HI. 9. November 2019 – July 2020, Operations Officer, 91st Air Refueling Squadron, MacDill AFB, FL 10. August 2020 – May 2021, Chief of Flight Safety, , MacDill AFB, FL 11. June 2021- Present, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA

MAJOR AWARDS AND DECORATIONS Meritorious Service Medal Air Medal with seventeen Oak Leaf Clusters Air Force Commendation Medal Air Force Expeditionary Service Ribbon with four Oak Leaf Clusters Afghanistan Campaign Medal with two Oak Leaf Clusters Iraq Campaign Medal

FLIGHT INFORMATION Rating: Command Pilot Flight hours: More than 3,800 hours Aircraft flown: T-34, T-1, KC-135R/T, MC-12W

EFFECTIVE DATES OF PROMOTION Second Lieutenant June 2, 2004 First Lieutenant June 2, 2006 Captain June 2, 2008 Major June 1, 2014 Lieutenant Colonel February 1, 2019

(Current as of June 2021)