Air Marshal Sean Keith Paul Reynolds, is a senior Royal Auxiliary Air Force officer who serves as Air Officer for Northern Ireland.

RAF career

Reynolds was commissioned into the Royal Air Force on 8 June 1984. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for service during the

Gulf War The Gulf War was a 1990–1991 armed campaign waged by a Coalition of the Gulf War, 35-country military coalition in response to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. Spearheaded by the United States, the coalition's efforts against Ba'athist Iraq, ...

. He became station commander at

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in September 2005. He went on to be Director of Finance and Military Capability (Air) in April 2009, Director of Strategy Management at the Ministry of Defence in March 2011 and Air Officer Commanding,

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in January 2013. He was appointed Deputy Commander (Personnel) at

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in May 2016. He became Air Officer Northern Ireland as a member of the Royal Air Force Reserve on 1 January 2019. Reynolds was appointed an Officer of the

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in recognition of services in

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on 29 April 2003 and advanced to Commander of the

in the

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. He was appointed a Companion of the

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in the 2019 New Year Honours.

References

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