Col. Eric B. Quidley is the Commander, 49th Mission Support Group, Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico. He commands a diverse team of over 1,800 personnel, providing base security, logistics, communication, contracting, engineering, and force support, to a population of 13,000 personnel. Col. Quidley supports F-16 Fighting Falcon and MQ-9 Reaper training operations, the 635th Materiel Maintenance Group, and the 704th Test Group. He oversees 66,000 acres of land, 1,394 facilities, and $5.3 billion in equipment and infrastructure. Col. Quidley also directs annual execution of $17 million in appropriated funds, $7.4 million in nonappropriated funds, and $33 million in civilian pay. Additionally, he provides base and local disaster response and contingency support.
Col. Quidley was commissioned through the Reserve Officer Training Corps at the University of North Carolina in 2002 and entered the United States Air Force as a Scientist. He voluntarily cross-trained as a Logistics Readiness Officer in 2005. Col. Quidley has deployed multiple times, most recently in 2015 as the Commander of the 770th Air Expeditionary Advisory Squadron (AEAS) in Baghdad, Iraq. As the first Air Advisor to the Iraqi Air Force in the country since 2011, he led the logistics and maintenance advisory efforts, conducting over 70 key leader engagements outside the wire with the Iraqi Air Force Vice Chief of Staff, the A4, A9, and other key leaders while executing a complex and loosely Defined advisor mission in a hostile environment. His leadership extended to 124 Airmen in combat, whom he supported through 32 missions to forward operating bases throughout Iraq. Prior to his current position, he served as the Commander of the 76th Commodities Maintenance Group, Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex, Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma.
EDUCATION
2002 Bachelor of Science in Psychology, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, N.C.
2003 Air and Space Basic Course, Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala.
2005 Master of Science in Engineering Systems Management, St. Mary’s University, San Antonio, Texas
2009 Squadron Officer School, Maxwell AFB, Ala.
2013 Advanced Logistics Readiness Officer Course (ALROC), Fort Dix, N.J.
2014 Master of Military Operational Art and Science, Air Command and Staff College, Maxwell AFB, Ala.
2019 Global Supply Chain Executive Development Program, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
2019 Australian Logistics Officer Advanced Course (LOAC), Canberra, Australia
2021 Master of Science, National Resource Strategy, Dwight D. Eisenhower School for National Security and
Resource Strategy, Fort Lesley J. McNair, Washington, D.C.
2024 Enterprise Perspective Seminar, Alan L. Freed Associates, Washington, D.C.
ASSIGNMENTS
1. January 2003 – January 2006, Test Psychologist and Chief of Test Construction, Air Force Occupational
Measurement Squadron, Randolph Air Force Base, Texas
2. January 2006 – June 2007, Officer in Charge, Support Agreements and War Reserve Materiel, 55th Mission
Support Group, Offutt AFB, Neb.
3. June 2007 – June 2008, Brigade Senior Logistics Mentor (Embedded Training Team), 2nd Brigade
205th Corps, Forward Operating Base Apache, Qalat, Afghanistan
4. July 2008 – January 2010, Director of Operations and Materiel Management Flight Commander, 374th Logistics
Readiness Squadron, Yokota AB, Japan
5. January 2010 – July 2011, Executive Officer to the Commander, 374th Mission Support Group, Yokota AB, Japan
6. July 2011 – June 2012, USAF Logistics Career Broadening Officer, Warner Robins Air Logistics Center, Robins
AFB, Ga.
7. June 2012 – July 2013, Executive Officer to the Commander, Warner Robins Air Logistics Center, Robins AFB, Ga.
8. July 2013 – June 2014, Student, Air Command and Staff College, Maxwell AFB, Ala.
9. June 2014 – June 2016, Commander, 319th Logistics Readiness Squadron, Grand Forks Air Force Base, N.D.
(June 2015 – January 2016, Commander, 770th Air Expeditionary Advisory Squadron, Baghdad, Iraq)
10. July 2016 – July 2018, Commander, 305th Aerial Port Squadron, Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J.
11. July 2018 – July 2019, Chief, 21R Force Development, Directorate of Logistics, Deputy Chief of Staff (DCS),
Logistics, Installations and Mission Support (HAF), Pentagon, Washington, D.C.
12. July 2019 – July 2020, Executive Officer to the Director of Logistics, DCS, Logistics, Installations & Mission
Support (HAF), Pentagon, Washington, D.C.
13. July 2020 – June 2021, Student, Dwight D. Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy,
Fort Lesley J. McNair, Washington, D.C.
14. June 2021 – April 2022, Battle Captain, Current Operations, Directorate for Logistics (J4), Joint Staff,
Pentagon, Washington, D.C.
15. April 2022 – July 2023, Military Deputy to the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (DASD) for Materiel
Readiness (OSD), Pentagon, Washington, D.C.
16. July 2023 – June 2025, Commander, 76th Commodities Maintenance Group, Tinker Air Force Base, Okla.
17. June 2025 – Present, Commander, 49th Mission Support Group, Holloman AFB, N.M.
SUMMARY OF JOINT ASSIGNMENTS
1. July 2021 – April 2022, Battle Captain in Current Operations Division on J4 Directorate for the Joint Staff, The
Pentagon, Washington, D.C., as a lieutenant colonel
2. April 2022 – July 2023, Military Deputy to Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Materiel Readiness the
Office of the Secretary of Defense, The Pentagon, Washington, D.C., as a lieutenant colonel and colonel
MAJOR AWARDS AND DECORATIONS
Defense Superior Service Medal
Legion of Merit
Bronze Star Medal with oak leaf cluster
Defense Meritorious Service Medal
Meritorious Service Medal with four oak leaf clusters
Air Force Commendation Medal with oak leaf cluster
Joint Service Achievement Medal
Air Force Achievement Medal
EFFECTIVE DATES OF PROMOTION
Second Lieutenant Dec. 28, 2002
First Lieutenant Dec. 28, 2004
Captain Dec. 28, 2006
Major Nov. 1, 2012
Lieutenant Colonel Dec. 1, 2016
Colonel Sept. 1, 2022
(Current as of June 2025)