Lieutenant Colonel Juan Manuel Chomón Pérez joined the Spanish Air Force in 1996 and holds a Master’s Degree in International Peace and Security from Instituto Gutierrez-Mellado.

As a transport pilot, he has flown CASA-235 and CASA-212 aircraft, performing typical Air Transport missions and numerous detachments of international maritime surveillance, these last ones as squadron leader, in European Union Operations Atalanta and Sophia.

He has a wide international experience, including four years as a flight instructor at the French Air Force Academy, flying Embraer-312 (Tucano), three years as Mission Controller in the European Air Transport Command in the Netherlands, deployment in the NATO ISAF mission, and his current assignment taking part in the General Staff Course at the Leadership Academy of the German Bundeswehr in Hamburg.