Carl Dixon (RAF officer)

Carl Dixon
Allegiance  United Kingdom
Service/branch  Royal Air Force
Years of service 1979–2014
Rank Air Vice Marshal
Commands held Joint Helicopter Command
RAF Benson
No. 27 Squadron
Battles/wars Bosnian War
Kosovo War
Sierra Leone Civil War
Iraq War
Awards Companion of the Order of the Bath
Officer of the Order of the British Empire

Air Vice Marshal Carl William Dixon CB, OBE is a retired senior commander of the Royal Air Force (RAF) who served as Commander of Joint Helicopter Command from 2011 to 2014.

RAF career

Dixon was commissioned into the RAF in 1979.[1] As a junior officer he flew Chinook helicopters from RAF Germany.[1] After an operational tour with the United Nations in Rwanda during the Rwandan Genocide in 1994, he joined the Policy Staff at the Ministry of Defence.[1] He became Commander of the Joint Support Helicopter Force in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1997 and Officer Commanding No. 27 Squadron later that year.[1] He led helicopter operations over Kosovo in 1999, was deployed to Sierra Leone in 2000 and then focussed on a scheme to develop joint helicopter capabilities with the Fleet Air Arm and Army Air Corps later that year.[1] He joined the Air Resources & Plans Directorate at the Ministry of Defence in 2003 and then became Station Commander at RAF Benson from where he was deployed to Iraq as Commander of the UK Joint Helicopter Force.[1] He became Director Equipment Capability (Air & Littoral Manoeuvre) in 2005, Director (Information Superiority) in 2008 and Commander of Joint Helicopter Command in 2011.[1]

He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 2010 Birthday Honours.[2]

References

Military offices
Preceded by
Anthony Johnstone-Burt
Commander Joint Helicopter Command
2011–2014
Succeeded by
Richard Felton
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