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Margaret C. Martin
Permanent Professor 2016–
B.S., United States Air Force Academy
M.A., College of William and Mary
M.S., Air Force Institute of Technology
M.A.A.S., School of Advanced Air and Space Studies
Ph.D., University of North Carolina
Meg Martin, the Academy’s 94th Permanent Professor, was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1974. She graduated from the United States Air Force Academy in 1996 with a degree in History. Through the graduate studies program, she was sent immediately to the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, where she earned her Master’s degree in History in 1997. Her first flying assignment was to specialized undergraduate pilot training at Laughlin AFB, TX, earning her wings in 1998. From 1998 to 2000 she was assigned as a Strategic Airlift Pilot flying the C-141B from Charleston AFB, SC. In 2000 she transitioned to the C-17A where she was selected for the Special Operations Low Level (SOLL) II mission. She flew numerous combat missions including the airdrop of the 27th Combat Engineering Battalion into Afghanistan and the airlift of Abrams main battle tanks to Balad Air Base, Iraq. As an Instructor and Evaluator Aircraft Commander, she was responsible for the upgrade and evaluation of pilots within the SOLL II program and helped implement night vision goggle assault landing training for the entire C-17A community. She returned to the Academy, 2005–2008, as Instructor and then Assistant Professor of History, winning the 2008 Shiner Award for excellence in teaching military history. Meg left the Academy in 2008 to become a student for three successive school assignments. First, from 2008 to 2009, she attended the Advanced Study of Air Mobility, USAF Expeditionary Center, Fort Dix, NJ, for which the Air Force Institute of Technology awarded her a Master of Science degree in Logistics. Next, from 2009 to 2010, she was a student at the School of Advanced Air and Space Studies (SAASS), Maxwell AFB, AL, the Air Force’s graduate school for strategists. SAASS selected her to enter its faculty pipeline program and, after earning Air University’s Master of Airpower Art and Science degree, she became a doctoral student in History at the University of North Carolina. Her PhD was awarded in 2014. Following her time as a doctoral student, Meg returned to the Academy in 2013 as Director of Operations, 306th Operations Support Squadron, underpinning the Academy’s cadet airmanship programs. There, she also flew as an Instructor Pilot with the 557th Flying Training Squadron, supporting the Academy’s powered flight program. In 2014 Air Mobility Command selected her to command the 571st Mobility Support Advisory Squadron, Travis AFB, CA, one of only two general purpose forces squadrons in the Air Force supporting the Building Partner Capacity mission. As the Commander, she led a team of 77 officers and enlisted members drawn from 30 different AF specialties. The squadron deployed in Mobile Training Teams across the US Southern Command area to provide instruction to partner-nation air forces in areas as diverse as airfield security, supply, aircraft maintenance, airdrop procedures, and crew resource management to improve interoperability. Meg is a Command Pilot with more than 3,100 flight hours in the C-17A, C-141B, T-53A, and TG-10B, including 320 combat hours in the C-17A. She was appointed Permanent Professor and Head, Department of History, in 2016. The department teaches history for the profession of arms as an essential foundation for effectively confronting complex and ambiguous situations.