Brig Gen Robert Beletic is a Senior Fellow with the Flatter Executive Cadre.
Brigadier General, U.S. Air Force.
Summary: Brig. Gen. Robert J. Beletic is Vice Commander, 1st Air Force (Air Forces Northern), Tyndall Air Force Base, Fla., and serves as the Deputy Joint Force Air Component Commander for U.S. Northern Command. He is the principal adviser to the commander and assists the commander in organizing, equipping and operating air forces in support of Northern Command and the North American Aerospace Defense Command. General Beletic graduated from the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1983. He has had nine fighter assignments at bases in four major commands, and he is an outstanding graduate from the USAF Fighter Weapons School. The general commanded the 20th Operations Group at Shaw Air Force Base, S.C., and the 388th Fighter Wing at Hill AFB, Utah. During staff tours, he served as the military assistant to the Secretary of the Air Force, as a Joint Staff NATO plans officer, and as the Director of Air Combat Command’s Commander’s Action Group. Following wing command, General Beletic served as a Division Chief in the Office of the Air Force Legislative Liaison, and then as the Chief of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Strategy Development Group. Prior to his current position, he served as the Deputy Commander, Canadian North American Aerospace Defense Region, Deputy Canadian CFACC and Deputy Commander for Operations, Winnipeg, Canada.
