Chris Moran

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Air Vice-Marshal Chris H Moran OBE MVO MA BSc RAF is a senior Royal Air Force officer and the current Assistant Chief of the Air Staff.

Chris Moran joined the Royal Air Force as a university cadet. He flew Harriers with No IV Squadron, as Qualified Weapons Instructor, and as flight commander, in Belize, the Falkland Islands, and on HMS Illustrious. He was also an exchange officer with the United States Marine Corps at Cherry Point, North Carolina.

Moran commanded the Harrier squadron in the Harrier Operational Conversion Unit at RAF Wittering, and then attended the Advanced Staff Course in 1991. After a brief posting to the Ministry of Defence he was appointed Equerry to HRH The Duke of Edinburgh. In 1994 he became commanding officer of No IV Squadron in Germany.

Promoted to Group Captain in 1996, he was appointed Staff Officer HQ 1 Group, and in the following year, station commander of RAF Wittering.

After attending the Higher Command and Staff Course in 1999 Moran became Divisional Director at the Joint Services Command and Staff College, where he also completed an MA.

As an Air Commodore he was then Director of Air Staff until 2002, and then the Chief of Defence Staff's Liaison Officer to the US Joint Staff in Washington. In the following year he became Air Officer Commanding 1 Group as an Air Vice Marshal. In 2005 he became Assistant Chief of Air Staff.

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• RAF Web Site - Assistant Chief of the Air Staff