Jeffrey Cretz

About Jeffrey Cretz

SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE, EDUCATION, AND QUALIFICATIONS: While in garrison, selected as commander of an operations group, commander of an operations support squadron, and as director of operations for an airlift squadron Six deployments to the U.S. CENTRAL COMMAND Area of Responsibility (including tours as a commander and assistant director of operations of an expeditionary airlift squadron and as an Information Operations/Electronic Warfare liaison officer to a joint special operations task force) Commanded a 71-person expeditionary airlift squadron during a bilateral exercise in the USINDO-PACOM Area of Responsibility Experience across the total force: Regular Air Force, Air Force Reserves, Air National Guard Designated as a Level Joint Qualified Officer Instructor/Evaluator C-130 Navigator with more than 3,200 total mishap-free flight hours (including 960 combat and combat support hours flying electronic attack, tactical airland, tactical airdrop, and aeromedical evacuation missions in the EC-130H and C-130H) Extensive Director of Mobility Forces team experience (Hurricane DORIAN, COVID-19 global pandemic, Exercise COMBINED COMMAND POST TRAINING 22-1 in South Korea) Higher headquarters experience at the Joint Staff, the Air Staff, National Guard Bureau, and Delaware National Guard Joint Force Headquarters Served as an assistant executive officer and aide-de-camp for a three star general leading a 105,700-person and agency Functional Area Manager for 20 Air National Guard C-130H/J airlift wings responsible for many issues, including deployment taskings and exercise participation, readiness reporting, manpower, emergent requirements, execution year funding, coordinating/staffing Air Force Instructions and Air National Guard Instructions Safety trained and experience as airlift wing’s Chief of Safety, responsible for all flight, occupational, and weapons safety programs Previous private sector management consulting experience (Accenture Federal Services and Booz Allen Hamilton) at a U.S. Intelligence Community agency MBA from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Master of Aeronautical Science from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, and Bachelor of Science from James Madison University

Experience

1. Commander, 166th Operations Group

   Air National Guard

   Sep 2025 — Present · New Castle, DE, US