Glenn Torpy
Military Person
1953 –
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Who is Glenn Torpy?
Air Chief Marshal Sir Glenn Lester Torpy, GCB, CBE, DSO is a retired senior Royal Air Force commander. He was a fast jet pilot in the late 1970s and 1980s, saw active service during the Gulf War and then went on to higher command. He was the air component commander on Operation Telic and served as chief of the air staff, the professional head of the RAF, from 2006 to 2009. In that role Torpy hosted the RAF's biggest air display in two decades, and argued for consolidation of all British air power in the hands of the RAF.
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- Born
- Jul 27, 1953
Ely, Cambridgeshire - Education
- Royal Air Force College Cranwell
- Imperial College London
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on July 23, 2013
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