BIOGRAPHY

. UNITED STATES AIR FORCE .

LIEUTENANT COLONEL KEVIN J. STEVENS

Lt Col Kevin J. Stevens is currently assigned to the Joint Forces Staff College as a military faculty member. He is a master air battle manager with over 4000 flight hours and 400 combat hours in the E-3A (NATO) and E-3B/C AWACS and the E-8C JSTARS aircraft in OPERATIONS DESERT STORM-PROVEN FORCE, OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM and ENDURING FREEDOM. Additionally he represented the French Air component as Chief, Strategy Plans in the NATO Combined Air Operations Center during OPERATION UNIFIED PROTECTOR. Born and raised in Salina, Kansas, his Air Force career commenced after he graduated from the University of Kansas in 1985 with a bachelor’s degree in atmospheric science, commissioning through Officer Training School in October 1986. Throughout 25 years of service, he has served in a broad range of academic, operational, joint, combined and international staff positions in the areas of education, training, weapons/tactics, and operational requirements at the squadron, group, wing and college levels. Involuntarily separated in December 1992 as part of the reduction-in-force, he completed a master’s degree while working as a technical writer/computer-based training specialist to the Navy’s E-6A TACAMO aircraft flight-crew training at McDonnell Douglas Training Systems, Norman, Oklahoma. In 1994 he became a packaging equipment engineer for Zellerbach Packaging in Hillside, Illinois and then equipment program manager of the Tulsa office. In May 1996, Lt Col Stevens re-entered service as an active-duty guardsmen in the Southeast Air Defense Sector, Florida Air National Guard, Tyndall AFB, Florida. Recalled to active duty in 2000 after Air Command and Staff College (ACSC) at Maxwell AFB, Alabama, he was the first Director of Operations of the NATO AWACS Air Crew Training Squadron. Moving to the Air Force Wargaming Institute at the College of Aerospace Doctrine Research and Education (now Lemay Center) he ran ACSC’s capstone Joint Air Exercise wargame. Returning to fly in 2005 on the E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System aircraft, he became chief of mission crew standardization and evaluation of training for the wing and operations group. In 2010 the USAF Chief of Staff handpicked Lt Col Stevens to be the first exchange officer to the French Air Force’s Center for the Simulation and Preparation of Air and Space Operations (CASPOA), a NATO Center of Excellence, where he led the way for training and education. Lt Col Stevens is married to the former Denise Stewart of Montgomery, Alabama. They have a 12 year-old daughter Katie.

EDUCATION:1985 Bachelor’s degree Atmospheric Science, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS1994 Masters Human Relations/Resource Management, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK1997 Squadron Officer School by correspondence2001 Air Command and Staff College, by correspondence2001 Air Command and Staff College, residence, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama2001 Master’s Military Operational Art, Air University, Maxwell Air Force Base, AL2002 Joint Forces Staff College, Norfolk, Virginia2005 Air War College, by correspondence

ASSIGNMENTS:1. Mar 87 - Jun 87, Student, Air Weapons Controller Course, Tyndall AFB, FL 2. Jan 88 - Sep 88, Student, AWACS Weapons Director Qualification Course, Tinker AFB, OK 3. Sep 88 - Aug 90, Air Weapons Director, 964th Airborne Warning and Control Squadron, Tinker AFB, OK 4. Aug 90 – Dec 92, Instructor Air Weapons Director, 966th AWACS Training Squadron, Tinker AFB, OK 5. May 96 – Dec 97, Senior Director/OIC Weapons Section, Southeast Air Defense Sector, Tyndall AFB, FL6. Dec 97 – Jan 99, Mission Crew Commander/Assistant Flight Commander, Southeast Air Operations

Center, Tyndall AFB, FL 7. Feb 99 – Aug 00, Chief Command and Control Systems Division, Southeast Air Operations Center,

Tyndall AFB, FL 8. Aug 00 – Jun 01, Student, Air Command and Staff College, Maxwell AFB, AL 9. Jun 01 - Jun 02, Tactical Director/Senior US Focal Point, Squadron Three, Geilenkirchen AB, GE 10. Jun 02 – Oct 03, Instructor /Chief Tactical Director Training, Aircrew Training Squadron, Geilenkirchen

AB, GE 11. Nov 03 – Jun 04, Director of Operations/Senior US Focal Point, Aircrew Training Squadron,

Geilenkirchen AB, GE 12. Aug 04 – Jun 05, Wargame Director, College of Aerospace Doctrine, Research and Education, Maxwell

AFB, AL 13. Jun 05 – Dec 05, Student Mission Crew Commander, 330th Combat Training Squadron, Robins AFB, GA 14. Jan 05 – Jun 07, Chief of Staff /Instructor Mission Crew Commander, 128th Airborne Command and

Control Squadron, Robins AFB, GA 15. Jul 07 – Oct 09, Assistant Director of Operations/Evaluator Mission Crew Commander, 330th Combat

Training Squadron, Robins AFB, GA16. Nov 09 – Feb 10, Evaluator Mission Crew Commander, 116 Operations Group, Robins AFB, GA17. Mar 10 – Oct 10, Defense Language Institute, Presidio of Monterey, CA18. Sep 10 – Dec 11, USAF Exchange Officer and Training Section Chief, Center for the Simulation and

Preparation of Air and Space Operations (CASPOA), Airbase 942, France19. Jan 11 – Aug 12, USAF Exchange Officer and Assistant Director of Education Division, CASPOA, Airbase

942, France20. Sep 12 – Aug 13, Director of Education Division, CASPOA, Airbase 942, France21. Sep 13- Jun 14, Chief of Department Head Division, CASPOA, Airbase 942, France

MAJOR AWARDS AND DECORATIONS:Defense Meritorious Service MedalMeritorious Service Medal with two oak leaf clustersAir Medal with two oak leaf clustersAerial Achievement MedalJoint Service Commendation MedalAir Force Commendation MedalJoint Service Achievement MedalCombat Readiness Medal with one oak leaf clusterNational Defense Service Medal with bronze starAir Force Outstanding Unit AwardAir Force Organizational Excellence AwardArmed Forces Expeditionary MedalSouthwest Asia Service Medal with bronze starGlobal War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal

National Defense medal (Bronze) (FRANCE)Libyan Campaign Medal (FRANCE)

EFFECTIVE DATES OF PROMOTION:Second Lieutenant October 2, 1986First Lieutenant October 2, 1988Captain October 2, 1990Major December 8, 1997Lieutenant Colonel April 1, 2003