Safety awards

• "Outstanding Performer" -- Air Combat Command safety evaluation (2008)...the first rating of its kind in over 3 years
• Safety Well Done Award -- for landing an F-16 engine out for an oil leak (1996)
• Distinguished Writer Award -- Air Combat Command Flight Safety (6 total awards)
• "Outstanding" rating as the Chief of 12th Air Force Flight Safety by the Air Combat Command
• USAF Unit Flying Safety Award -- for mishap-free flying at Luke AFB, AZ

USAF awards

• Distinguished Flying Cross for Heroism (Valor device)
• 2003 Lockheed-Martin Dryden Semper Viper award
• 2003 USAF Aviation Valor award (selected by the Chief of Staff of the USAF)
• Meritorious Service Medal (5)
• Air Medal (2)
• Aerial Achievement Medal (4)
• Air Force Combat Action Medal
• Commendation Medal (2)
• Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal
• Southwest Asia Service Medal with star

Flying awards

• Distinguished Graduate - F-16 flight training
• Distinguished Graduate - Euro-NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training
• Distinguished Graduate - F-111 flight training
• Distinguished Graduate - Undergraduate Navigator Training

• Top Gun - strafe - Nov 1996
• Top Gun - high altitude dive bomb - Fall 1996
• Top Gun - high altitude dive bomb - Fall 1998

Academic Awards

• Embry-Riddle - Master degree, graduated with Distinction
• Auburn University - Aviation Management degree, High Honor Graduate
• The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi
• Eta Mu Sigma Aviation Honor Society
• Robert G. Pitts Outstanding Aviation Management Senior Award
• Outstanding Engineering Student Award
• AFROTC Distinguished Graduate