| 词条 | Carl Dixon (RAF officer) |
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|name = Carl Dixon |birth_date = |death_date = |birth_place = |death_place = |image = |caption = |nickname = |allegiance = {{flag|United Kingdom}} |serviceyears = 1979–2014 |rank = Air Vice Marshal |branch = {{air force|United Kingdom}} |commands = Joint Helicopter Command RAF Benson No. 27 Squadron |unit = |battles = Bosnian War Kosovo War Sierra Leone Civil War Iraq War |awards = Companion of the Order of the Bath Officer of the Order of the British Empire |laterwork = }} Air Vice Marshal Carl William Dixon {{post-nominals|country=GBR|sep=,|CB|OBE}} is a retired senior commander of the Royal Air Force (RAF) who served as Commander of Joint Helicopter Command from 2011 to 2014. RAF careerDixon was commissioned into the RAF in 1979.[1] As a junior officer he flew Chinook helicopters from RAF Germany.[1] After an operational tour with the United Nations in Rwanda during the Rwandan Genocide in 1994, he joined the Policy Staff at the Ministry of Defence.[1] He became Commander of the Joint Support Helicopter Force in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1997 and Officer Commanding No. 27 Squadron later that year.[1] He led helicopter operations over Kosovo in 1999, was deployed to Sierra Leone in 2000 and then focussed on a scheme to develop joint helicopter capabilities with the Fleet Air Arm and Army Air Corps later that year.[1] He joined the Air Resources & Plans Directorate at the Ministry of Defence in 2003 and then became Station Commander at RAF Benson from where he was deployed to Iraq as Commander of the UK Joint Helicopter Force.[1] He became Director Equipment Capability (Air & Littoral Manoeuvre) in 2005, Director (Information Superiority) in 2008 and Commander of Joint Helicopter Command in 2011.[1] He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 2010 Birthday Honours.[2] References1. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 [https://www.gov.uk/joint-helicopter-command Joint Helicopter Command] {{s-start}}{{s-mil}}{{succession box|title=Commander Joint Helicopter Command|before=Tony Johnstone-Burt|after=Richard Felton|years=2011–2014}}{{end}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Dixon, Carl}}2. ^{{London Gazette|issue=59446|supp=y|page=2|date=12 June 2010}} 8 : Living people|British military personnel of the Sierra Leone Civil War|Companions of the Order of the Bath|Officers of the Order of the British Empire|People from Hemel Hempstead|Royal Air Force air marshals|Royal Air Force personnel of the Iraq War|Year of birth missing (living people) |
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