Jean-Paul Paloméros
 Jean-Paul Paloméros |
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Paloméros at the Halifax International Security Forum
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| Born |
13 August 1953 Paris |
| Allegiance | France |
| Service/branch | French Air Force |
| Years of service | 1976 – 2015 |
| Rank |
 General
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| Commands held | Supreme Allied Commander Transformation NATO |
| Battles/wars |
Opération Épervier Operation Crécerelle Operation Deny Flight |
| Awards |
 Grand Officier de la Légion d’Honneur Officier de l’Ordre National du Mérite Médaille de l'Aéronautique
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Jean-Paul Paloméros is a General in the French Air Force and a former Supreme Allied Commander Transformation, a senior military post in NATO. Paloméros previously served as Chief of Staff of the French Air Force from 2009 to 2012.
In 1973, he joined l'École de l'Air, the French Air Force Academy and qualified as a fighter pilot in 1976. He acquired extensive experience both as an operational commander and as a fighter pilot, having flown 82 combat missions and more than 3,500 flying hours, mostly on Mirage F1C and Mirage 2000 aircraft.
He led the 2/12 Picardy Squadron in Cambrai for the 1987 Epervier operational deployment in Chad and in 1990 the 30th Fighter Wing in Reims.
In 1993, Palomeros graduated from the Royal Air Force Staff College, Bracknell in Great Britain, where he was awarded the Curtis Prize by the British Chief of the Air Staff.
From 1996 to 1998, he was appointed as Commander of Cazaux Air Base. This base hosts one of the main French flight test centres, several advanced French flying training squadrons and a permanently stationed Singaporean training Squadron.
Palomeros has also been deployed in Vicenza, Italy (1993) as Deputy Commander of the French Air Force during Operation "Crecerelle", as well as in Operation Deny Flight, and then in Kiseljak, Bosnia-Herzegovina (1995) where he was in charge of coordinating the air-ground campaign during Operation Deliberate Force.
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