Lieutenant Colonel Robert T. Hassler is the Commander, Air Force ROTC Detachment 930, at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He is responsible to the AFROTC Commander and the university president for recruiting, training, motivating and educating Air Force officer candidates. He is the senior Air Force officer on campus with dual responsibilities as Detachment Commander and Chairman of the Department of Aerospace Studies with rank of full professor.
Colonel Hassler is a 1991 graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and was commissioned through the Reserve Officer Training Corps. He has served in various assignments including aircraft survivability analyst, B-2 guided munitions engineer, Milstar payload engineer and chief operations engineer, Squadron Officer School flight commander, faculty developer and operations officer, and Director of orbits analysis for the National Reconnaissance Office’s SIGINT satellite constellation. He also served on the Headquarters Air Force Space Command staff as an Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance systems analyst, Chief of Analyses and Assessments, and as Executive Officer to the Director of Strategic Plans, Programs, Analyses, Assessments and Lessons Learned. Colonel Hassler came to Detachment 930 from Headquarters, 14th Air Force (Air Forces Strategic) where he served as Director of Analyses, Assessments and Lessons Learned.
Awards & Decorations
- Defense Meritorious Service Medal
- Meritorious Service Medal with two oak leaf clusters
- Air Force Commendation Medal with oak leaf cluster
- Joint Service Achievement Medal
- Air Force Achievement Medal
- AF Outstanding Unit Award with oak leaf cluster
- AF Organizational Excellence Award with six oak leaf clusters
Assignments
- September 1992 – July 1995, Aircraft Survivability Analyst; Deputy Program Manager, Aircraft Survivability, Wright Laboratory, Wright Patterson AFB, Ohio
- July 1995 – December 1995, B-2 Guided Munitions Engineer, Aeronautical Systems Center, Wright Patterson AFB, Ohio
- January 1996 – February 1996, Student, Squadron Officer School, Maxwell AFB, Alabama
- February 1996 – November 1998, Lead Payload Software Engineer; Chief, Operations Engineering, 4th Space Operations Squadron, Schriever AFB, Colorado
- November 1998 – September 2000, Flight Commander; 32nd Student Squadron, Maxwell AFB, Alabama
- September 2000 – July 2002, Assistant Chief of Faculty Development; School Operations Officer, Squadron Officer School, Maxwell AFB, Alabama
- July 2002 – May 2004, Director, Orbits Analysis, National Reconnaissance Office, Fort George G. Meade, Maryland
- May 2004 – June 2005, Student, Intermediate Developmental Education, Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright Patterson AFB, Ohio
- June 2005 – December 2007, Chief, ISR Systems Analysis; Executive Officer; Chief, Analyses and Assessments, Directorate of Analyses, Assessments and Lessons Learned, Headquarters, Air Force Space Command, Peterson AFB, Colorado
- January 2008 – June 2011, Director, Analyses, Assessments and Lessons Learned, 14th Air Force (AFSTRAT), Vandenberg AFB, California
- July 2011 – Present, Commander, Air Force ROTC Detachment 930, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Education
- 1991 Bachelor of Science, Aeronautical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York
- 1996 Squadron Officer School, Maxwell AFB, Alabama (residence)
- 1997 Master of Science, Management, Colorado Technical University, Colorado
- 2002 Air Command and Staff College (correspondence)
- 2005 Master of Operations Analysis (IDE Resident Program), Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright Patterson AFB, Ohio
- 2008 Air War College (correspondence)
Promotions
- Second Lieutenant, December 16, 1991
- First Lieutenant, December 16, 1993
- Captain, December 16, 1995
- Major, September 1, 2002
- Lieutenant Colonel, August 1, 2007
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