Michael Hood

Lieutenant-General Michael John Hood He earned his Air Combat Systems Officer Wings in 1988.

Hood went on to become Director General Air Force Development in 2010, Deputy Director General of International Security Policy in June 2011 and Deputy Commander of the Royal Canadian Air Force in September 2012. After that he became Director of Staff of the Strategic Joint Staff in June 2013 and finally Commander of the Royal Canadian Air Force in July 2015. He retired from the Canadian Armed Forces in May 2018.

Post-retirement Following his career in the military, in 2018 Hood went on to become an executive in a Vancouver-based energy and mining firm.

In May 2020, Hood wrote an op-ed in the National Post entitled "Securing Canadian sovereignty in a post-COVID world."

Awards and decorations As witness the photograph by the Toronto Star, Hood had received as of his appointment to RCAF Commander in July 2015 the following Orders and Decorations:

with NATO-OTAN Clasp

Decoration awarded on 27 May 2017

Decoration awarded on 1 August 2020 Commander level He was a qualified RCAF Air Combat Systems Officer and as such wore the Royal Canadian Air Forces Air Combat systems Officer badge.