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VIRGINIA TECH ALUMNUS MAJ. GEN. DANIEL M. DICK IS CORPS OF CADETS COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER
BLACKSBURG, May 4, 1999--Maj. Gen. Daniel M. Dick, vice commander of the 12th Air Force and U.S. Southern Command Air Forces at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona, will speak at the commencement exercises of the Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets.
Maj. Gen. Dick, a Virginia Tech alumnus, will speak on "Challenges for Today's Military." The corps ceremony will be Friday, May 14, at 3 p.m. in the Donaldson Brown auditorium.
The 12th Air Force ensures the operational readiness of eight active-duty wings in the western and mid-western United States and Panama. The wings comprise more than 450 aircraft and 35,000 active-duty military and civilian personnel, with an additional 17,800 people and more than 310 aircraft assigned as gained units of the Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard.
Maj. Gen. Dick's duties also involve overseeing U.S. Air Force assets provided to U.S. Southern Command in Central and South America as vice commander of the air component for that unified command. He also serves as the Air Force vice commander of the battle-management component of U.S. Strategic Command.
The general received his Air Force commission through the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) program at Virginia Tech in 1970. A distinguished graduate of undergraduate pilot training, he has served as an F-4 and F-16 instructor pilot and as an aide and special assistant to commanders at Tactical Air Command and Air Combat Command respectively. A command pilot with more than 3,500 flying hours, he has commanded an operational F-16 fighter squadron, a fighter wing, and the Air Force's largest composite wing.
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