AFJROTC Instructor Information
Major Chad Wright
Maj Wright is the Senior Aerospace Science Instructor here at DeLand High School. He enlisted in the Air Force in 1995 serving as a medical laboratory technician. After completing ROTC at Brigham Young University he commissioned in the Air Force in December, 1999 as a manpower officer. Major Wright has served as an operations branch chief, chief of manpower and organization, section commander, flight commander, and deputy squadron commander. He has deployed three times to Kyrgyzstan, Iraq, and Kuwait. He retired from active duty at the Pentagon on 1 November, 2013.
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Major Lacy Croft
Maj Croft has a Bachelors of Arts degree from Brigham Young University and a Masters of Science degree from the National Intelligence University in Washington, D.C. Major Croft served in the US Army National Guard, after college he went on to serve in the US Air Force as a Flight Commander, Branch Chief, Director of Operations and more before retiring from the Air Force out of the United States Special Operations Command in 2021. His life and service in over 30 different countries, including 6 international deployment has given him a wide range of experience and knowledge which he brings to his position as an instructor in AFJROTC.
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