Draft:Hiroaki Uchikura
Hiroaki Uchikura | |
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内倉 浩昭 | |
![]() Official Portrait in 2020 | |
Chief of Staff, Air Self-Defense Force | |
Assumed office 30 March 2023 | |
Preceded by | Shunji Izutsu |
Personal details | |
Born | January 1965 (age 59) Tarumizu, Kagoshima, Japan |
Military service | |
Allegiance | ![]() |
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Years of service | 1987-present |
Rank | General (JASDF) |
Commands | 5th Air Wing Nyutabaru Air Base Air Defense Command Chief of the Air Staff |
General Hiroaki Uchikura (内倉 浩昭) is a Japanese military officer who has served as the 37th Chief of Staff, Air Self-Defense Force for the Japan Air Self-Defense Force since March 2023.
Biography[edit]
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Born in 1965 in the city of Tarumizu in Kagoshima Prefecture[1] Uchikura graduated from Kagoshima Prefectural Kanoya High School (Japanese: 鹿児島県立鹿屋高等学校) in 1983 and graduated from the National Defense Academy of Japan in March 1987 and joined the Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF).
In the JASDF Uchikura served as a pilot flying the F-15 Eagle
In 2001 he was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel and assigned to the 6th Air Wing in December 2003.
In 2006 he was promoted to Colonel and attended the Air Staff College the following year.
Starting in 2008 he was assigned to the Defense Divison of the Air Staff eventually becoming its director in 2010.
In 2012 he was promoted to Major General and made commander of the 5th Air Wing and the Nyutabaru Air Base.
In 2014 he was made the General Manager of Defense of the Air Defense Command followed by an appointment as Deputy Director of the Defense Planning Department of the Joint Staff Supervision Department in 2015.
In 2018 he was promoted to Lieutenant General and posted as a senior member of the Acquisition, Technology & Logistics Agency.
Uchikura was appointed Deputy Chief of Air Staff in 2019 and made Commander of the Air Defense Command the next year.
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On 30 March 2023 Uchikura succeeded General Shunji Izutsu as the 37th Chief of the Air Staff.[2][3]
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Awards[edit]
- Legionnaire, Legion of Merit
Defensive memorial cordon[edit]
5th Defensive Memorial Cordon
6th Defensive Memorial Cordon
7th Defensive Memorial Cordon
9th Defensive Memorial Cordon
10th Defensive Memorial Cordon
11th Defensive Memorial Cordon with one Silver Cherry Blossom
13th Defensive Memorial Cordon with one Silver Cherry Blossom
15th Defensive Memorial Cordon
18th Defensive Memorial Cordon with one Silver Cherry Blossom
19th Defensive Memorial Cordon
20th Defensive Memorial Cordon
22nd Defensive Memorial Cordon
25th Defensive Memorial Cordon with one Silver Cherry Blossom
26th Defensive Memorial Cordon with two Silver Cherry Blossoms
27th Defensive Memorial Cordon
- Unknown
32nd Defensive Memorial Cordon
33rd Defensive Memorial Cordon
36th Defensive Memorial Cordon with two Silver Cherry Blossoms
References[edit]
- ^ ""Kyushu Defense Bureau 24th Defense Issues Seminar November 9, 2013" (PDF). Japan Ministry of Defense. Retrieved 22 January 2024.
- ^ "Personnel of the new shogunate Yoshida, cabinet meeting approval, land chief and air shogunate also change". Sankei Shimbun. 22 March 2023. Archived from the original on 2024-01-23. Retrieved 22 January 2024.
- ^ "Order issued by the Ministry of Defense (General Personnel) - March 30, 2023" (PDF). Japan Ministry of Defense. Retrieved 22 January 2024.