Operations Officer/Recruiting Officer

Lt Col Gregory T. Lotz is the Recruiting Flight Commander, and Associate Professor of Aerospace Studies at the University of Utah, Air Force ROTC Detachment 850.  He is responsible for recruiting, training and commissioning cadets on the University of Utah campus as well as cadets from six other “cross-town” colleges in the Salt Lake area.

Lt Col Lotz commissioned through ROTC at Brigham Young University in 2006. He started his military service as a Space and Missile Ops Officer becoming an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Combat Crew Commander and assistant flight commander in Montana.  He transitioned to a dedicated Space Operations officer in North Dakota and became a Missile Warning and Space Surveillance Crew Commander and trainer.  He was a formal instructor at the Advanced Space Operations School at Peterson AFB, CO, where he was flight commander and course director for the Space Situational Awareness Advanced Course, as well as the Space Operations Course for Acquirers and Engineers, and the Missile Warning & Defense Advanced Course.  Prior to his current assignment, Maj Lotz served in various Combatant Command and customer outreach positions in the Mission Integration Directorate of the National Reconnaissance Office which culminated in serving as the Chief of Staff for his office.