Lieutenant Colonel Harrison Garlick

Combat Air Branch Head NATO - Joint Air Power Competence Centre

Lt Col Garlick commissioned into the United States Air Force from the University of Virginia in 2006 with a Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering. In his first operational assignment he served as an F-22A Instructor Pilot, deploying three times as part of a theater security package across the Pacific and Middle East areas of operation. After completing this assignment, he graduated from the Weapons Instructor Course in 2014, and then served as the 27th Fighter Squadron Weapons Officer, leading the squadron's effort to achieve initial operational capability in newly fielded F-22 Air-to-Ground mission sets. Following that assignment he instructed at the United States Air Force Weapons School, serving as the Deep Strike Escort phase manager specializing in multi-domain integration and Low Observable tactics. Lt Col Garlick was selected for the Chief of Staff of the Air Force Blue Horizons Fellowship in 2018, utilizing his deep strike subject matter expertise to inform and field integrated Air-Space capabilities while earning a Masters in Airpower Strategy and Technology Integration. He then worked as the Operations Branch Chief in Air Combat Command's Next Generation Air Dominance division, driving operational requirements for development of the recently announced F-47. He returned to the Combat Air Force in 2020, serving as Director of Operations for the 27th Fighter Squadron, deploying to Central Command in support of Operation INHERENT RESOLVE and Operation SPARTAN SHIELD. Prior to joining the Joint Air Power Competence Center, Lt Col Garlick served as Commander of the 94th Fighter Squadron at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia. During his extended three year and four-month command tour he completed three short-notice deployments and led an F-22 first, forward deployment directly from European Command to Central Command in support of Operation AGGRESSIVE PROTECTOR and Operation ATLAS GUARDIAN. During his final year in command, he led the 94th Fighter Squadron into combat, flying in Operation MIDNIGHT HAMMER, Operation ABSOLUTE RESOLVE, and major combat operations during Operation EPIC FURY. Lt Col "Devil" Garlick is a command pilot with 1,800 flying hours including 214 combat hours accumulated over 54 combat sorties in the F-22A. His wife Stephanie is a physician. They have one son, Harrison "Sonny" Garlick.