Lieutenant Colonel Michael A Oetjens is the Medical Logistics Flight Commander for the 88th Medical Group, 88th Air Base Wing,

He leads the Air Force Medical Service‘s second largest medical materiel account; leading 197 personnel providing logistics, facility management, and medical maintenance support for the 88th Medical Group and 40 geographically separated units.Lieutenant Colonel Oetjens began his career in the Air Force in 2007 when he was selected as a direct commission to the Medical Service Corps. Wright-Patterson Medical Center is Lieutenant Colonel Oetjens third Medical Logistics Flight
Command. He recently completed a tour within the Defense Health Agency as the Medical Logistics and Facilities Management Branch Chief for the Education and Training Directorate. Lieutenant Colonel Oetjens managed medical accounts, supporting 48 joint clinical training programs, which graduates 16.5 thousand students annually. He also spent nearly four years with the Air Force Medical Operations Agency (AFMOA) as Deputy Chief of Medical Logistics Operations
for AFMOA South. While there Lieutenant Colonel Oetjens managed 97 Air Force Medical Service contracts. Lieutenant Colonel Oetjens has had the honor of serving overseas on three deployments in his career. Once to Kuwait where he served as the Chief Administrator and Executive Officer in the 386th Expeditionary Medical Group. He also served in Afghanistan as an advisor to the Afghan National Police Surgeon General and Afghan National Police Medical Depot Commander. He guided the Afghan National Police in the development of a decentralized medical supply distribution system, reducing supply delivery times to the outer provinces by 120%.

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

2016 Air Command and Staff College, Correspondence

2012 Squadron Officer School, In-Residence, Maxwell AFB, AL 2007 Health Service Administration Course, Sheppard AFB, TX

2005 Masters in Public Administration , George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 2002 Bachelor of Science, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Ml

ASSIGNMENTS

1. September 2007 – January 2010, Patient Administration Element Chief, 377th Medical Support Squadron, Kirtland AFB, NM
2. January 2010 – January 2011, Information Systems Flight Commander, 377th Medical Support Squadron, Kirtland AFB, NM
3. January 2011 – July 2014, Medical Logistics and Readiness Flight Commander, 88th Medical Squadron, Hansom AFB, MA
4. July 2014 – October 2017, Deputy Chief Logistics Operations, Air Force Medical Operations, San Antonio, TX
   
5. October 2017 – June 2018, Chief Medical Logistics and Facilities Management Branch Chief, Defense Health Agency, Fort Sam Houston, TX
6. June 2018 – Present, Medical Logistics Flight Commander, 88th Medical Support Squadron, Wright-
7. Patterson AFB, OH

MAJOR AWARDS AND DECORATIONS

Defense Meritorious Service Medal with one oak leaf cluster

Meritorious Service Medal with one oak leaf cluster

Air Force Commendation Medal with one oak leaf cluster Joint Meritorious Unit Award

National Defense Service Medal

Afghanistan Campaign Medal

Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Service Medal Nuclear Deterrence Operations Service Medal

NATO Medal

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AND AFFILIATIONS

Member, Association for Healthcare Resource and Materials Management (AHRMM)

EFFECTIVE DATES OF PROMOTION

First Lieutenant January 27, 2007

Captain March 26, 2009

Major April 1, 2014

Lieutenant Colonel December 1, 2018