Col Paul Tombarge, USAF
Professor — MA-Security Studies, Naval Post Graduate School
AS 400 Instructor, Commander, Chair
Contact
- E-mail: paul.tombarge@austin.utexas.edu
- Office: RLP 5.726
Biography
Colonel Paul A. Tombarge is the Commander, Detachment 825, Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps and the Chair, Department of Air Force Science, The University of Texas at Austin. Born and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Colonel Tombarge completed U.S. Air Force Field Training in 1990 at Plattsburgh Air Force Base, New York; earned his parachutist wings in 1991 from the U.S. Army Infantry School at Fort Benning, Georgia; and received his commission in 1992 through Detachment 415, Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps at the University of Minnesota. A command space operations officer and Air Force foreign area officer, his operational experience includes tours employing a variety of missile warning, space surveillance, and space superiority systems in the United States, Europe, and Southwest Asia, as well as planning and controlling Integrated Joint Special Technical Operations in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM. He also completed staff tours as an executive officer at the 614th Space Operations Group, as an international affairs branch chief in the Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of the Air Force, and on the faculty of the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies. Colonel Tombarge has commanded a deployed space control team, a space control squadron, and was the deputy commander and commander (interim) of Air Force Space Command's largest, most geographically separated, and most weapon system diverse operations group. Prior to assuming his current position, Colonel Tombarge was the Chief, Office of Defense Cooperation at the U.S. Embassy in Berlin, Germany.
