page_title: Michael E. Conley
section_title: Education
hierarchical_section_title: Michael E. Conley / Education
caption_attribution_description: English: Official portrait of Cadet Michael E. Conley.
context_page_description: Michael E. Conley is a brigadier general in the United States Air Force currently serving as the deputy commander of the Combined Force Space Component Command of the United States Space Command and vice commander of the Space Operations Command. Prior to being assigned at his current position, he was commander of the 1st Special Operations Wing of the United States Air Force.
  Conley was born and raised in Geneva, New York. He was commissioned to the U.S. Air Force on May 1996 after graduating from the United States Air Force Academy. He also completed pilot training in 1998, and since then, has flown the UH-1N and MH-53 helicopters, and the CV-22 tilt-rotor aircraft. Also during his Air Force career, Conley served as special assistant to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In 2005, he was named Air Force Special Operations Pilot of the Year. Conely holds three master’s degrees, including a degree in national security and strategic studies from the Naval War College.
context_section_description: 1996  Bachelor of Science, U.S. Air Force Academy, Colo.
  
  2000  Squadron Officer’s School, Maxwell AFB, Ala.
  
  2004  M.S. in Management, University of Maryland, University College, Md.
  
  2006  Air Command and Staff College, by correspondence
  
  2008  M.A. in Communication, George Mason University, Va. (AF Intern Program)
  
  2010  Air War College, by correspondence
  
  2014  M.A. in National Security and Strategic Studies, U.S. Naval War College, R.I.
  
  2017 Air Force Enterprise Leadership Seminar, Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina, N.C.
caption: Conley in the United States Air Force Academy
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