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Saturday, July 8, 2023
2:00 PM | Wright Library Community Room
In celebration of Independence Day, United States Air Force veteran Andrew Lloyd spotlights veterans who created and shaped our communities in the Miami Valley.
Meet the Presenter
Andrew Lloyd retired from active duty in August of 2021, with his final tour being as Deputy Director of the Logistics Directorate for the Air Force Sustainment Center (AFSC) with oversight responsibilities towards sustaining major (US) Air Force weapon systems.
Andrew graduated from the Royal Air Force College Cranwell in 1988, having completed initial officer training and specialist logistics officer training. He served in a variety of assignments involving training, operations, logistics and policy, initially specializing in aerial port operations and operational logistics planning before broadening into life cycle sustainment. His recent tours include serving in Allied Command Transformation, Virginia to work with US Joint Staffs to provide strategic headquarters guidance and leadership to deliver Allied Joint Doctrine through collaborative, multinational teams. Prior to that he served operational tours in national and multinational organizations including alongside the USAF and US Marine Corps and was an operational planner for operations on NATO’s borders.
Serving first in the US in Virginia, and then in Ohio, he developed an avid interest in the Revolutionary War, leading leadership off-sites to the likes of Yorktown, Valley Forge and Brandywine. Having read over 40 books on the period, he particularly focuses on the individuals involved, their lives and their reasons for taking whichever side they did, with particular interest in George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin. He also led many other studies of leadership to sites such as Gettysburg, Antietam and Chickamauga. Residing with his wife Cheryl, and daughters Beth and Jo, he maintains active participation in tennis and skiing and continues to drag his family to sites of historical interest! His father served in the 1st UK Airborne Division in WWII, and due to glider failure, did not make it into the “Bridge Too Far” at Arnhem but went on to serve in the Mid and Far East. Two uncles served in the RAF in WWII, one of whom was killed in a training accident in Canada.