Frank Gorenc

Frank Gorenc is a United States Air Force fourstar general who currently serves as the Commander, U.S. Air Forces Europe Commander, U.S. Air Forces Africa Commander, Allied Air Command and Director, Joint Air Power Competence Center. He previously served as the Assistant Vice Chief of Staff and Director, Air Staff, Headquarters, United States Air Force at the Pentagon. The general is a command pilot with more than 4,100 flight hours in the T38A, F15C, MQ1B, UH1N and C21A. He assumed his current assignment on August 2, 2013.

Gorenc was born in Ljubljana, Yugoslavia, present day Slovenia. Frank and his older brother, Stanley immigrated with their parents to the United States from the former Yugoslavia in 1962 when they wereand 4. After arriving in America, their father worked as a tailor, and their mother served as a factory machine operator. Gorenc said that he was required to go to summer school each year simply because the opportunity for education existed and was available. We didnt know the language, Frank said. We didnt know the culture, and we came to learn the United States is truly a land of opportunity. Frank went to visit his older brother, then a freshman cadet, during Parents Weekend at the U.S. Air Force Academy, and there he developed his first interest in the Air Force. As a freshman in high school walking on the academy campus, you couldnt help but be inspired, the younger brother said. Coming from a lowermiddleclass background, the opportunities seemed boundless.

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