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CAPT Amanda Eckel

  • Position: Operations Flight Commander
  • Department: Aerospace Studies - Air Force ROTC
  • Office Location: Building 78, Room 117H
  • aeckel@uwf.edu
  • Campus: 850.473.7705

Biography

Captain Amanda Eckel currently serves as the Operations Flight Commander at the University of West Florida, Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps (AFROTC) Detachment 014, Pensacola, Florida. In this position, she manages the development of 120 cadets, annually executing over 200 hours of professional miliary training. Additionally, in her position as Assistant Professor of Aerospace Studies, she is the lead instructor for 32 lessons on advanced leadership and ethics, ultimately preparing cadets for a commission as Second Lieutenants in the Department of the Air Force.

Captain Eckel hails from Toledo, Ohio, where she commissioned out of Bowling Green State University in May 2019. She completed Force Support Officer training in July 2020, and since then has held various force support positions revolving around personnel and readiness programs. Captain Eckel took part in Austere Challenge 2024, U.S. European Command’s premier joint, multi-domain North Atlantic Treaty Organization exercise, where she was the principle A1 Battle Staff Representative coordinating combatant command support. Prior to her current position, she was the Military Personnel Flight Commander, 52d Force Support Squadron, Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany.

Education

  • 2019 Bachelor of Applied Health Science, Aeronautical Engineering
    Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio

Assignments

  1. November 2019 – November 2021, Section Commander, 18th Security Forces Squadron, Kadena Air Base, Japan
  2. November 2021 – September 2023, Officer in Charge of Readiness and Plans, 52d Force Support Squadron, Spangdahlem
    Air Base, Germany
  3. September 2023 – September 2024, Military Personnel Flight Commander, 52d Force Support Squadron, Spangdahlem Air
    Base, Germany
  4. September 2024 – present, Operations Flight Commander, AFROTC Detachment 014, University of West Florida, Pensacola,
    Florida

Major Awards and Decorations

  • Air Force Achievement Medal
  • Meritorious Service Medal

Effective Dates of Promotion

  • Second Lieutenant May 18, 2019
  • First Lieutenant August 12, 2021
  • Captain August 12, 2023