[1] During that assignment, he also served as the U.S. representative to the joint committee for the Status of Forces agreement between the two countries.

He earned his wings as a distinguished graduate of pilot training at Williams Air Force Base, Ariz.

July 1982 - October 1982, student and Top Gun, lead-in fighter training, Holloman AFB, N.M. 4.

August 1997 - June 1998, student, National War College, Fort Lesley J. McNair, Washington, D.C. 14.

June 2004 - July 2006, deputy director of Politico-Military Affairs for Asia, Joint Staff, the Pentagon, Washington, D.C. 18.

July 2006 - October 2008, director of operations, plans, requirements and programs, Headquarters Pacific Air Forces, Hickam AFB, Hawaii 19.