Colonel Glen R. Shilland assumed the duties of United States Air Attaché to the Republic of Korea in 2019.

Colonel Shilland entered the Air Force as a Distinguished Graduate of Officer Training School. In his first assignment as a satellite operations officer at Colorado Springs, Colorado, he performed command and control for surveillance, weather, and navigation spacecraft. He became a B-52H navigator and bombardier at Minot, North Dakota, and volunteered as an Air Liaison Officer, at Fort Campbell, Kentucky—deploying twice in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM with the 5th Special Operations Forces and the 101st Airborne Division Headquarters. He has been a B-52H instructor, flight commander, and deployed in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM as Assistant Director of Operationsin the 23d Expeditionary Bomb Squadron and 5th Operations Support Squadron.

He then served as the Strategic Plans Branch Chief at Air Force Global Strike Command Headquarters at Barksdale, Louisiana. After that, he was Commander of the 505th Combat Training Squadron at Hurlburt Field, Florida, in charge of 120 military, civilian, and contractor personnel supporting worldwide joint and combined operational-level air component command and control exercises. Colonel Shilland was also the Nuclear Air Tasking Order Coordinator at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Combined Air Operations Center, at Torrejón Air Base, Madrid, Spain. He was then assigned as the Commander of the 608th Air Operations Center at Barksdale, Louisiana—in charge of 230 personnel tasked with planning, executing, and assessing worldwide bomber operations.

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