Lieutenant Colonel James A. Braunschneider - Commander

LtCol Braunschneider is the Commander and Professor of Aerospace Studies for the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps Detachment 665 at the University of Cincinnati in Cincinnati, Ohio.  In this capacity, he directs recruiting, educating, training, and character building of students from among twelve universities and colleges for commissioning into the United States Air Force as second lieutenants.

Lt Col Braunschneider attended Michigan Technological University and received his commission through AFROTC.  He attended the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) as his first Air Force assignment His subsequent assignments cover a broad range of activities including laboratory activities, special operations, flight test, weapons test, space operations, and large space acquisitions with the National Reconnaissance Office.

Major Rusty E. Mardis

Major Mardis is the Operations Flight Commander and Assistant Professor of Aerospace Studies for the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps Detachment 665 at the University of Cincinnati in Cincinnati, Ohio. In this capacity, he advises recruiting, educating, training, and character building of students from among twelve universities and colleges for commissioning into the United States Air Force as second lieutenants.

Major Mardis is from Visalia, Kentucky. He enlisted in the Air Force in April 1990 and served as a Public Health Craftsman until he received his commission in December of 2001. As an officer he has served in a variety of Space and Missile duty assignments and in a contingency deployment for Operation Enduring Freedom. Prior to his current assignment, he was the OIC, Biometric Support Element in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Captain Karah A. Stalets

Captain Karah A. Stalets is the Recruiting Flight Commander for Air Force ROTC Detachment 665, University of Cincinnati in Cincinnati, Ohio. She is responsible for coordinating entry and recruitment into the cadet corps for The University of Cincinnati and ten consortium universities within the local area.  Additionally, Captain Stalets is an Assistant Professor of Aerospace Studies instructing first year cadets in the Foundations of the Air Force. 

Captain Stalets joined Air Force ROTC is 2004 and subsequently commissioned in 2008.  Prior to this assignment she supported three flying wings, Headquarters Air Mobility Command, Headquarters Eighteenth Air Force, Headquarters United States Transportation Command and 40 tenant units on Scott AFB, IL in various core personnel positions as a Force Support Officer.

Captain Stalets received her Bachelor of Science degree in Criminal Justice from Southeast Missouri State University and Master of Science degree in Criminal Justice from Univeristy of Cincinnati in December 2010.  She is a graduate from Air and Space Basic Course and a Distinguished Graduate of Force Support Officer’s Course

TSgt Sally Deppen

NCOIC, Personnel

SSgt Venisha Witherspoon

NCOIC, Knowledge Ops