Email: kbgreens@mpsaz.org
LT COLONEL KIRK B. GREENSFELDER, USAF (Ret) Dobson High School AFJROTC Senior Aerospace Science Instructor 480-472-3246 kbgreens@mpsaz.org Lt Colonel Greensfelder has been the Senior Aerospace Science Instructor at Dobson High School since 2005. The unit’s mission is to build better citizens for America. Colonel Greensfelder graduated from Miami University (Ohio) in 1976 where he was a four year ROTC Scholarship Cadet. He was commissioned a Second Lieutenant and entered active duty as a Titian II missile officer at Davis-Monthan AFB in Tucson, Arizona. After Davis-Monthan he went to Ellsworth AFB, South Dakota where he was Mission Commander and Chief of Training on the EC-135 airborne command and control aircraft. Following Ellsworth, Lt Colonel Greensfelder served five years with the Air Force Audit Agency in New Mexico, South Korea and California. From California he went to Air Command and Staff College, then to Naples Italy working for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Southern Region Headquarters as a logistics planner during the crisis in Bosnia. From NATO Lt Colonel Greensfelder continued his tour of Europe as Director of Operations in the Air Mobility Support Squadron (AMSS) at Royal Air Force Mildenhall, United Kingdom, where he deployed to Prince Sultan Air Base, Saudi Arabia in support of Operation SOUTHERN WATCH as the AMSS Commander. From there he served as the AMSS Commander at Incirlik Air Base, Turkey supporting Operation NORTHERN WATCH. Col Greensfelder returned to RAF Mildenhall and Headquarters Third Air Force as Chief, Plans and Exercises Branch. While at Headquarters Third Air Force, Colonel Greensfelder helped coordinate the largest bed down of US aircraft in the United Kingdom since WWII; in support of Operation NOBLE ANVIL (the Kosovo contingency). When the bed down was complete, he deployed to Albania as US Liason to NATO Combined Task Force and then Operations Officer for Joint Task Force SHINING HOPE (the humanitarian relief operation in support of the Kosovar refugees). Also while at Third Air Force, Colonel Greensfelder deployed to Headquarters European Command as the Joint Task Force Atlas Response Liaison Officer in support of flood relief efforts in Mozambique and South Africa. Colonel Greensfelder is married to the former Saundra Evans from Point Pleasant, New Jersey. They have three sons, Steven, Scott, and Jeff. Steven and Scott served as officers in the navy and Jeff is a captain in the USAF flying C-17s. EDUCATION 1976 B.S., Business Administration, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. 1982 Squadron Officer School, Maxwell AFB, Alabama. 1985 M.B.A., University of South Dakota, Rapid City, South Dakota 1987 M.S., Human Resource Management, Golden Gate University, San Francisco, California 1991 Air Command and Staff College, Maxwell AFB, Alabama. 1991 Joint Command and Staff College, Norfolk, Virginia. 1996 Air War College, Maxwell AFB, Alabama 2001 Academic Instructor School, Maxwell AFB, Alabama. ASSIGNMENTS
April 1977 - Dec 1980, Missile Combat Crew Commander, 390th Strategic Missile Wing, Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona. January 1981 - June 1985, Airborne Missile Crew Commander/Chief of Training, 4th Airborne Command and Control Squadron, Ellsworth AFB, S. Dakota. July 1985 - July 1987, Audit Team Leader, Area Audit Office, Holloman AFB, New Mexico. August 1987 - August 1988, Audit Branch Chief, Osan AB, Republic of Korea. September 1988 - July 1990, Audit Manager, HQ Air Force Audit Agency, Norton AFB, California. Aug 1990 - June 1991, Student, Air Command and Staff College, Maxwell AFB, Alabama. July 1991 - November 1994, Chief, Logistics and Transportation, Southern Region Signal Support Regiment, HQ AFSOUTH, NATO, Naples, Italy. December 1994 – Feb 1997, Director of Operations, 627th Air Mobility Support Squadron, RAF Mildenhall, UK. March 1997 – August 1998, Commander, 628th Air Mobility Support Squadron, Incirlik AB, Turkey. September 1998 - June 2001, Chief, Plans and Exercises, HQ Third Air Force, RAF Mildenhall, UK. July 2001 – May 2005, Commandant of Cadets, AFROTC Detachment 25, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona. August 2005 -- Present, Senior Aerospace Science Instructor, Dobson High School Mesa, Arizona MAJOR AWARDS AND DECORATIONS Defense Meritorious Service Medal Meritorious Service Medal with four oak leaf clusters Joint Service Commendation Medal Air Force Commendation Medal with four oak leaf clusters Joint Meritorious Unit Award AF Outstanding Unit Award with three oak leaf clusters AF Organizational Excellence Award with one oak leaf cluster Combat Readiness Medal with one oak leaf cluster National Defense Service Medal with one oak leaf cluster Korean Defense Service Medal Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal Kosovo Campaign Medal with one oak leaf cluster Humanitarian Service Medal NATO Medal EFFECTIVE DATES OF PROMOTION Second Lieutenant June 1976 First Lieutenant December 1978 Captain December 1980 Major April 1988 Lieutenant Colonel April 1992 (Current as of Aug 2008)
