Kirk B. Stabler is a retired United States Air ForceColonel (Special Agent) who served as the 18th Commander of the U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI), Quantico, Virginia. As the AFOSI Commander, Stabler oversaw AFOSI's worldwide network of over 2,000 military and civilian special agents and over 500 unsworn members stationed at major Air Force installations and a variety of worldwide special operating locations.[1]
Stabler (left) presents the Bronze Star Medal of Fallen Special Agent Lee Hitchcock to his brother, Mr. Craig Hitchcock (right), during the Headquarters AFOSI inaugural Celebration of Life Remembrance Ceremony on May 22, 2017, at Quantico, VA.[2]
Stabler entered the United States Air Force in May 1991. He has served in a variety of AFOSI positions as an investigator, operations officer, and a forensic sciences consultant and has conducted and supervised felony-level criminal, fraud and counterintelligence investigations and operations. He has commanded at the detachment, squadron and wing levels and served in a joint assignment capacity. His assignments have included five overseas postings. Prior to this assignment, Stabler served as the Vice Commander and Director, Strategic Programs and Requirements, Headquarters AFOSI, Quantico, Virginia.[1]
AFOSI appointment
Stabler became the 18th Commander in the storied 69-year history of AFOSI on May 18, 2017. He succeeded Brigadier General (Special Agent) Keith M. Givens who welcomed the new Commander by passing him AFOSI Badge and Credential 1, May 16, 2017, in front of a standing room only audience of AFOSI headquarters members, in the Russell-Knox Building Collaboration Center, Quantico, VA. General Givens retired to the civilian sector.[3]
Assignments
March 1992 – April 1993, undergraduate pilot training, Vance AFB, Okla.
April 1993 – June 1993, agent trainee, AFOSI Detachment 411 OL-A, Vance AFB, Okla.
June 1993 – September 1994, Operations Officer, AFOSI Detachment 613, Kunsan AB, Republic of Korea.
September 1994 – April 1997, Operations Officer, AFOSI Detachment 113, Hill AFB, Utah.
April 1997 – August 1997, Commander, AFOSI Detachment 113, Hill AFB, Utah.
August 2008 – July 2010, Commander, AFOSI 4th Field Investigations Squadron, Sembach Annex, Germany (October 2009 – April 2010, Task Force Counterintelligence Coordinating Authority, Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa, Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti).
July 2010 – July 2012, Chief, Commander's Action Group, Headquarters Air Force Office of Special Investigations, Andrews AFB, Md. and Quantico, Va.
July 2012 – May 2013, student, Air War College, Maxwell AFB, Ala.
June 2013 – July 2015, Commander, 7th Field Investigations Region, Joint Base Andrews, Md.
July 2015 – November 2016, Director, Strategic Programs and Requirements, Headquarters Air Force Office of Special Investigations, Quantico, Va.
November 2016 - May 2017, Vice Commander and Director, Strategic Programs and Requirements, Headquarters Air Force Office of Special Investigations, Quantico, Va.
May 2017 - May 2019, Commander, Headquarters Air Force Office of Special Investigations, Quantico, Va.
Joint Assignments
June 2005 - August 2008, Assistant Counterintelligence Staff officer and Chief, Counterintelligence Operations Section, Headquarters United States European Command, Stuttgart-Vaihingen, Germany, as a lieutenant colonel[1]
^"Stabler to take reins of AFOSI". U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations. May 2017. Retrieved 28 Dec 2018. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
