09/22/2026
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Dr. Timothy Kirk
Luncheon Keynote Speaker
Dr. Tim Kirk, Colonel, US Air Force (Ret), graduated from the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1993 with a Bachelor of Science Degree. His Air Force service included seven tours of command duties, multiple combat tours of duty, including two continuous years in Afghanistan, where he led over 300 outside-the-wire missions, and a tour at Osan AB, Korea, where he earned 7th Air Force's top officer honors for his A-10 "Warthog" combat generation efforts. He led missions in Africa supporting America's response to the 2012 Benghazi attack, led the air logistics mission for the French counterinsurgency in Mali, and served as the J-4 on a named Presidential AFRICOM Joint Task Force. He also served as the lead speechwriter for two Chiefs of Staff of the U.S. Air Force and later for the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, ADM Mike Mullen. He earned his Master’s in Logistics Management from The Air Force Institute of Technology and his Doctor of Philosophy in Military Strategy from Air University's School of Advanced Air and Space Studies. He retired in 2014 and returned to Afghanistan to teach tactics until 2016, when he relocated to Sierra Vista to become a Department of the Army Civilian at Fort Huachuca. He left the civil service in 2018 to found the Warrior Healing Center.
