Colonel Joseph Wall

Colonel Joseph D. Wall is the Commander, 22d Air Refueling Wing, McConnell Air Force Base, Kansas, one of the Air Force's three core tanker wings supporting more than 3,500 activeduty Airmen and global contingency operations. With KC-46 and KC-135 aircraft, the wing provides aerial refueling for U.S. and allied aircraft and hosts the Kansas Air National Guard's 184th Wing and Air Force Reserve's 931st Air Refueling Wing.

Colonel Wall was commissioned in 2001 as an ROTC distinguished graduate at the University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida and was an Olmsted Scholar in Germany. He is a graduated Air Mobility Command Phoenix Mobility program intern trained in Contingency Response operations. He has deployed numerous times as an aircrew crewmember and contingency responder, in support of operations in Southwest Asia, Europe, the Caribbean, and Africa. Colonel Wall carries a second Air Force Specialty Code as Foreign Affairs Officer. Prior to arriving at RAF Mildenhall, Colonel Wall was the Current Operations Element Branch Chief and Chief of Operations in the National Joint Operations and Intelligence Center, the Joint Staff, Directorate of Operations (J3), at the Pentagon, where he was responsible for real time monitoring and contingency operations and keeping the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff abreast of all national security activities involving the Department of Defense.

Colonel Wall is a command pilot with more than 3,000 hours in the T-37B, T-1A, KC-10A, KC-135R/T, and KC-46 aircraft and over 100 combat and combat support missions supporting multiple operations over Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, and the Horn of Africa. He is married to Trysta Malm of Wayne, IL, and they have three children Tavin, Tenley, and Trace.