Article and Photos by Ted Luebbers, EAA Chapter 534 P.I.O.
On Saturday, January 28, 2023, at 9:00 am, the Experimental Aircraft Association will hold its monthly Chapter 534 meeting at the Leesburg International Airport Administration Building (Take Wilco Drive off RT 441 to locate the administration building. Follow Wilco Drive and it will be the white building on the left with the flag in front).
The speaker for the program will be Brigadier General Gregory L Trebon ( Ret.)
Anyone interested in the mission of EAA Chapter 534 and in hearing General Trebon’s presentation is cordially invited to attend.
BRIGADIER GENERAL GREGORY L. TREBON
Brig. Gen. Gregory L. Trebon is Commander, Special Operations Command Pacific, U.S. Pacific Command, Camp H.M. Smith, Hawaii.
General Trebon was commissioned through the ROTC program at Loyola University in 1975. For 15 months he worked as a commercial pilot while awaiting undergraduate pilot training at Williams Air Force Base, Ariz., where he graduated first in his class in 1978. The general’s special operations experience began in 1980 when he was an initial cadre pilot for night vision goggle operations in the C 141 as part of Operation Honey Badger, preparations for a second rescue attempt of American hostages held in Iran. He has worked as a special operations staff officer at Headquarters Military Airlift Command, for special operations squadrons, as a JSOC air operations chief, and as the special assistant to the Commander in Chief of USSOCOM at MacDill AFB, Fla.
General Trebon has commanded a special operations squadron, an air mobility command operations group, an Air Combat Command wing, and a combined joint task force conducting special operations in and around Afghanistan during Operation Enduring Freedom. Prior to his current assignment, he served as Deputy Commanding General, Joint Special Operations Command, U.S. Special Operations Command, Fort Bragg, N.C. The general is a command pilot with more than 7,700 military and civilian flight hours in 55 types of aircraft. He is a military static line and freefall-qualified parachutist with more than 500 military and civilian iumps.
