Rex Snider:  

Life COLONEL REX K. SNIDER, JR. From Fairmont, W. Va., Colonel Rex Snider graduated from Grove City College, Pennsylvania with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration. He was commissioned on October 1, 1980 at Officer Training School. In addition, Colonel Snider completed a Masters Degree in Administration from Central Michigan University. Currently, Colonel Snider is the Plans and Requirements Division Chief in the Intelligence Directorate at Air Combat Command. Previously he served a one-year remote as the Combined Air Operations Center, Director of Intelligence at Al-Udeid Air Base, Qatar. Prior to Qatar, he served at Ramstein Air Base, Germany as the Air Forces Europe, Director of Intelligence and was instrumental in the stand-up of DGS-4 and served as the ISR Division Chief in USAFE’s Air Operations Center. During this tour he deployed to Incirlik Air Base, Turkey as the 9th Air Expeditionary Task Force A-2, executing OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM. Prior to serving in Germany, he served as the Deputy Group Commander for the 480th Intelligence Group, Langley AFB Virginia. Immediately after 9/11, he was instrumental in leading the warriors of the DGS-1/2 into OPERATION ENDURNG FREEDOM by providing reachback intelligence operations for U-2s, Global Hawk and Predator sorties flying over Afghanistan and Iraq. Colonel Snider’s other Intelligence assignments include serving as a Flight Commander with the 20th Intel Sq at Offutt AFB, Nebraska; an Air Defense Analyst, Section Commander and Division Chief with the Joint Intelligence Center, Pacific; Director of Operations and Commander, 607th Air Intellig...Expand for more