Colonel Bradley K. Smith is the Vice Commander, 93d Air Ground Operations Wing, Moody Air Force Base, Georgia. The Wing consists of 3 groups with over 2,800 Battlefield Airmen at 20 locations throughout the Continental U.S., supporting 8 out of the 10 active duty US Army Divisions. Subordinate units are the 3d Air Support Operations Group (ASOG) at Fort Hood, Texas; the 18th Air Support Operations Group at Fort Bragg, North Carolina; and the 820th Base Defense Group (BDG) at Moody AFB. The ASOGs provide Air, Space, and Intelligence, Surveillance, & Reconnaissance expertise to plan, coordinate, and execute the supported ground commander’s scheme of maneuver. The ASOGs also provide all Battlefield Weather support to Army units, both in-garrison and at deployed locations. The 820 BDG provides rapidly deployable, fully integrated, highly specialized forces for active internal and external base defense.
Colonel Smith is a 1994 graduate of DePauw University. He began his career as an intelligence officer with assignments at Osan AB, South Korea and Kadena AB, Japan. He deployed to Incirlik AB, Turkey as an intel officer and an F-15C pilot to support Operation NORTHERN WATCH in the months leading up to Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. Colonel Smith began a series of staff assignments after a medical grounding in 2003. He was selected as an executive officer three times and became a joint specialty officer with a tour in the USJFCOM J-3 and J-8. While stationed at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Colonel Smith served in additional duties as a JTF J5, an AFFOR Chief of Staff, and Crisis Action Team Director, and he deployed to SOUTHCOM in support of Haiti earthquake relief efforts. Colonel Smith commanded the 5th Air Support Operations Squadron as an Air Liaison Officer and 717th Expeditionary Air Support Operations Squadron, providing the Air Support Operations Center (ASOC) for the Afghanistan Area of Operations and executing the retrograde of the ASOC from Kabul International Airport, Afghanistan to Al Udeid AB, Qatar.
EDUCATION
1994 Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, DePauw University, Greencastle, Ind.
1999 Squadron Officers School, Maxwell AFB, Ala.
2007 Joint and Combined Warfighting School, Norfolk, Va.
2008 Air Command and Staff College, Maxwell AFB, Ala.
2008 Masters of Military Operational Art and Science, Air University, Maxwell AFB, Ala.
ASSIGNMENTS
1. September 1994 – June 1995, Student, Air Force Intelligence Officer School, Goodfellow AFB, Texas
2. July 1995 – July 1996, Intelligence Analyst, 51st Operations Support Squadron, Osan AB, South Korea 3. July 1996 – December 1996, Chief, Intelligence Systems, 18th Operations Support Squadron, Kadena AB, Japan
4. December 1996 – May 1999, Chief, Squadron Intelligence, 12th Fighter Squadron, Kadena AB, Japan 5. July 1999 – January 2001, Student Pilot, 47th Flying Training Wing, Laughlin AFB, Texas
6. February 2001 – August 2001, Student, F-15C Fighter Training, 1st Fighter Squadron, Tyndall AFB, Fla.
7. August 2001 – February 2003, F-15C Pilot; Scheduler; Chief, Life Support, 27th Fighter Squadron, Langley AFB, Va.
8. February 2003 – June 2003, Executive Officer, 1st Fighter Wing, Langley AFB, Va.
9. July 2003 – August 2004, Chief, Wing Training, 1st Operations Support Squadron, Langley AFB, Va.
10. August 2004 – August 2005, Chief of Readiness, J-3 Force Analysis Branch, JFCOM, Norfolk, Va.
11. August 2005 – June 2007, Executive Officer & Project Team Lead, J-8, JFCOM, Norfolk, Va.
12. July 2007 – June 2008, Student, Air Command and Staff College, Maxwell AFB, Ala.
13. June 2008 – April 2011, Chief of Fighter Plans; Division Chief, Future Plans/ Crisis Ops Division; Deputy Director, Air, Space & Information Ops, 13 AF/A3, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii
14. April 2011 – July 2012, Executive Officer to Commander, Pacific Air Forces, Joint Base Pearl Harbor- Hickam, Hawaii
15. July 2012 – July 2014, Commander, 5th Air Support Operations Squadron, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash.
16. September 2013 – March 2013, Commander, 717th Expeditionary Air Support Operations Squadron, Kabul International Airport-North, Afghanistan then Al Udeid AB, Qatar
17. July 2014 – June 2015, Deputy Commander, 1st Air Support Operations Group, Joint Base Lewis- McChord, Wash.
18. June 2015 – June 2016, Chief, Safety Issues Division, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, Pentagon, Va.
19. June 2016 – present, Vice Commander, 93d Air Ground Operations Wing, Moody AFB, Ga.
FLIGHT INFORMATION
Rating: Pilot
Flight Hours: More than 750
Aircraft Flown: F-15C/D, AT/T-38, T-37
MAJOR AWARDS AND DECORATIONS
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
Joint Service Achievement Medal
Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal
Afghanistan Campaign Medal
Korean Defense Service Medal
NATO Medal (ISAF Non-Article V)
EFFECTIVE DATES OF PROMOTION
Second Lieutenant May 20, 1994
First Lieutenant July 25, 1996
Captain July 25, 1998
Major Jan. 1, 2005
Lieutenant Colonel Dec. 1, 2009
Colonel Feb. 1, 2016
(Current as of September 2016)