Gilmary M. Hostage

Gilmary Hostage (October 2011)

Gilmary Michael “Mike” Hostage III. Born April 29, 1955 in Bethesda , Maryland, is a former general in the United States Air Force (USAF). From September 13, 2011 to November 4, 2014 he was in command of Air Combat Command (ACC), a major command of the US Air Force based at Langley Air Force Base , Virginia .

Before that, from August 2009 he commanded the United States Air Forces Central (USAFCENT), which was subordinate to the US Central Command (USCENTCOM ).

Education and career

Hostage grew up in Bethesda, Maryland, where he attended a Jesuit private school and was a member of a model flying club . He joined the Air Force in 1978 after graduating from Duke University in Durham , North Carolina , with a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering .

As a pilot came Hostage during his career on over 4000 hours of flight time on the patterns T-38 , F-15A / B / C / D , F-16A / B / C / D / CJ , F-22 , E-3B / C AWACS , T-6A and MC-12W .

Service in the rank of general

Hostage (right) with then Chairman of the USAF General Staff , General Norton A. Schwartz , during the handover of command at the ACC on September 13, 2011

From July 2001 to August 2002, Hostage commanded the 363rd Air Expeditionary Wing at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia and was promoted to Brigadier General on January 1, 2002 in this capacity . Back in the United States , he served a year and a half in command of the 552nd Air Control Wing at Tinker Air Force Base , Oklahoma , and served as Director of Plans and Programs at the Air Education and Training Command (AETC) headquarters on Randolph Air Force Base , Texas . From October 2004 he served as Director of Intelligence and Air, Space and Information Operations (A2 / 3) and from August 2005 in the rank of major general .

Between June 2006 and March 2008 he served as Director of Requirements and Integration (J8) in the US Joint Forces Command , Virginia, then until August 2009 as Deputy Commander of the Pacific Air Forces (PACAF) on Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam , Hawaii . before he was transferred to the United States Air Forces Central under promotion to Lieutenant General , where he was responsible for the armed forces of the USAF in the Middle East .

On September 13, 2011, Hostage finally succeeded William M. Fraser as Commander of the Air Combat Command; he was promoted to general on the same day.

On November 4, 2014, Hostage handed over command of the ACC to General Herbert J. Carlisle and retired after 37 years of military service.

Promotions

rank	date
Second lieutenant	November 7th 1977
First lieutenant	November 7, 1979
Captain	November 7, 1981
major	March 1, 1987
Lieutenant Colonel	April 1, 1990
Colonel	February 1, 1994
Brigadier General	January 1, 2002
Major General	August 1, 2005
Lieutenant General	August 5, 2009
general	September 13, 2011

Awards

Selection of decorations, sorted based on the Order of Precedence of Military Awards :

• Defense Distinguished Service Medal
• Air Force Distinguished Service Medal
• Defense Superior Service Medal
• Legion of Merit with quadruple oak leaves
• Distinguished Flying Cross
• Bronze star
• Meritorious Service Medal with double oak leaves
• Air Force Commendation Medal with oak leaves
• Joint Meritorious Unit Award
• Combat Readiness Medal with oak leaves
• National Defense Service Medal with a bronze star
• Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal
• Southwest Asia Service Medal with a bronze star
• Kuwait Liberation Medal (Saudi Arabia)
• Kuwait Liberation Medal ( Kuwait )

See also

• United States Armed Forces
• Ranks of the United States Armed Forces
• List of active generals and admirals in the United States Armed Forces

Web links

Commons : Gilmary M. Hostage III.  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Web presence of the Air Combat Command (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Entry on Hostage on the website of the Bethesda model flying club DC Maxecuters (English; last accessed on March 17, 2014).
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Biography of Hostages at the USAF (English; last accessed on March 16, 2014).
3. ↑ Press release of the Ministry of Defense of March 22, 2001 (last accessed on March 17, 2014).
4. ↑ Press release of the Ministry of Defense of February 9, 2004 (last accessed on March 17, 2014).
5. ↑ Knuteson, Scott : Air Combat Command welcomes new leadership. ( Memento of the original from November 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Report from the ACC press office on the change of command of September 13, 2011 (last accessed on March 17, 2014).