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Tom Burke (RAF officer)
Royal Air Force Air Vice-Marshal / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Air Vice-Marshal Thomas James Patrick Burke, CBE is a British pilot and senior Royal Air Force officer, who since August 2023 has been Air Officer Commanding No. 11 Group RAF.[2]
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Allegiance | United Kingdom |
Service/ | Royal Air Force |
Years of service | 1992–present[1] |
Rank | Air Vice-Marshal |
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Awards | Commander of the Order of the British Empire |
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Burke was station commander of RAF Waddington from November 2017 to December 2019.[3][4] He was promoted air commodore on 6 January 2020 upon appointment as assistant chief of staff operations,[5] serving as such until he was appointed director of the Combined Air and Space Operations Centre at the Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar in December 2022.[6] He was promoted to air vice-marshal on 25 August 2023, as he took the command of the No. 11 Group RAF.[7]
In the 2021 New Year Honours, he was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE).[8]