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Colonel Richard Van Hook is the Air Force Space Command Chair to Air University and an instructor in the Department of Leadership and Warfighting at Air War College. He has served as an Assistant Professor at the Air Force Academy and as Vice Commandant of the National Security Space Institute. Col Van Hook has commanded at the Squadron level and has served on the staffs of HQ Pacific Air Forces, HQ U.S. Space Command, HQ U.S. Strategic Command and HQ NORAD and U.S. Northern Command. He served on the Air Component Coordination Element for Operation IRAQI FREEDOM at Camp Victory, Iraq. Colonel Van Hook received his commission from the Tennessee State University ROTC program with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Education from Western Kentucky University in 1988. He holds Masters Degrees from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and Air University, and is a graduate of the Air Force Weapons School and a Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies.

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