Tom Burke (RAF officer) explained

Tom Burke
Allegiance:	United Kingdom
Branch:	Royal Air Force
Serviceyears:	1992–present^[1]
Rank:	Air Vice-Marshal
Commands:	No. 11 Group RAF RAF Waddington 39 Squadron
Battles:	Balkans Iraq War War in Afghanistan Operation Shader
Awards:	Commander of the Order of the British Empire

Air Vice-Marshal Thomas James Patrick Burke, is a British pilot and senior Royal Air Force officer, who since August 2023 has been Air Officer Commanding No. 11 Group RAF.^[2]

Burke was station commander of RAF Waddington from November 2017 to December 2019.^{[3] [4]} He was promoted air commodore on 6 January 2020 upon appointment as assistant chief of staff operations, serving as such until he was appointed director of the Combined Air and Space Operations Centre at the Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar in December 2022.^[5] He was promoted to air vice-marshal on 25 August 2023, as he took the command of the No. 11 Group RAF.

In the 2021 New Year Honours, he was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE).

Notes and References

1. Web site: No 11 Group: Air Officer Commanding . Royal Air Force . 21 December 2023 . en-gb.
2. Web site: Senior Appointments . Royal Air Force . 26 August 2023 . 16 August 2023.
3. Web site: RAF Waddington: Commander . Royal Air Force . 26 August 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181101090810/https://www.raf.mod.uk/our-organisation/stations/raf-waddington/ . 1 November 2018 .
4. Web site: RAF Waddington: Commander . Royal Air Force . 26 August 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200203024436/https://www.raf.mod.uk/our-organisation/stations/raf-waddington/ . 3 February 2020 .
5. Web site: Senior Appointments . Royal Air Force . 26 August 2023 . 21 September 2022.