Lt Col Bradley Maxon
Commander, Professor of Aerospace Studies
Lieutenant Colonel Bradley G. Maxon is the Commander, Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps Detachment 585 and Department Chair/Professor of Aerospace Studies at Duke University. He is responsible for overseeing the recruitment and preparation of officer candidates through a comprehensive education and training program. This program develops and produces professional leaders of character, who are dedicated to serving the nation, while leading the United States Air Force and the United States Space Force in the 21st century.
In 2005, Lt Col Maxon commissioned through the Reserve Officer Training Corps at Northern Arizona University. He is an RC-135V/W Evaluator Electronic Warfare Officer with extensive operational and combat experience. Lt Col Maxon has served in a variety of roles including formal training unit instructor, operational test and evaluation branch chief, director of operations, expeditionary reconnaissance squadron commander and deputy operations group commander. He holds a Master of Business Administration from American Military University, a Test and Evaluation Practitioner Certification from Defense Acquisition University and has completed Air War College and Air Command and Staff College by correspondence with Air University. Lt Col Maxon has deployed in support of Operations IRAQI FREEDOM, ENDURING FREEDOM, INHERENT RESOLVE, SPARTAN SHIELD and ATLANTIC RESOLVE.
Major Joseph Schneider
Operations Officer, Visiting Associate Professor of Aerospace Studies
Major Joseph A. Schneider is the Operations Officer, Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps Detachment 585, at Duke University. He is responsible for cadet training, student professional development, and the instruction of the 300 level Aerospace Studies curriculum.
Maj Schneider commissioned through the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps at Cedarville University, cross-town to Wright State University, in 2005. He is a Security Forces Officer with command and deployed experience in Kuwait and Afghanistan. Maj Schneider has served in a broad range of roles including several Flight Commander and Operations Officer roles; Convoy Commander; Security Forces Logistics Officer and Emergency Special Teams Officer-in-Charge; Executive Officer to the Wing Commander; Director of Staff; Mission Assurance Assessments Team Lead; Squadron Commander; and Major Command Staff Deputy Branch Chief. He holds a Bachelor of International Studies: Social Sciences degree from Cedarville University and a Master of Homeland Security and Defense degree from Naval Postgraduate School. He completed Air Command and Staff College by correspondence and participated in Operations ENDURING FREEDOM, INHERENT RESOLVE, OCTAVE QUARTZ, and ALLIES REFUGE/ALLIES WELCOME.
Captain Ryan Allen
Recruiting Officer, Visiting Associate Professor of Aerospace Studies
Captain Ryan Allen is the Recruiting Officer, Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps Detachment 585 at Duke University. He is responsible for overseeing the recruitment of officer candidates and the instruction of 100 and 200 level Aerospace Studies curriculum.
Captain Allen received his commission through completion of Officer Training School at Maxwell AFB, AL in November 2016. Prior to his commission in the Air Force, Capt Allen achieved the rank of Gunnery Sergeant (E-7) in the United States Marine Corps. During his 16 years of service as a Marine, he acted as Substation Commander, a Canvassing Recruiter, a Wounded Warrior Battalion Recovery Care Coordinator and Section Leader, Operations Clerk, and a Tactical Vehicle Operator. Capt Allen worked closely within the Joint Service Medical Evacuation Process as a Marine Corps Hospital Liaison at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, and at Ramstein AB, Germany. His enlisted tour of duty included two combat deployments to Iraq in 2003 and 2005, completing over 90 tactical convoys throughout the Al Anbar Province in Support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM phases I-III.
As an Air Force Officer, Captain Allen served as Assistant Installation Deployment Officer, Flight Commander - Materiel Management and Executive Officer, 56th Mission Support Group at Luke AFB, Arizona before being assigned to Seymour Johnson AFB, NC and filling roles as Flight Commander, Deployment and Distribution Flight, deploying as a Special Operations Command Central Liaison Officer to Special Operations Joint Task Force – Operation INHERENT RESOLVE in 2020 and assumed duties as the Director of Operations in June 2021. Captain Allen holds a Master's Degree in Management and Leadership from Webster University and a Graduate Certificate in Project Management. He began his current assignment at Detachment 585, Duke University in April 2022.
Technical Sergeant Austin Rozelle-Murphy
Non-Commissioned Officer in Charge, Visiting Lecturer
Technical Sergeant Austin Rozelle-Murphy is from Boston, Massachusetts, and is the Non-commissioned Officer in Charge and Visiting Lecturer for Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps, Detachment 585 at Duke University. She is responsible for overseeing a wide array of administrative functions; to include: scholarship retention, financial programs, student advisement, enrollment, and much more.
TSgt Rozelle-Murphy is an Air Transportation Craftsman and core Logistics Specialist. She enlisted in the U.S. Air Force in November 2014, after completing Basic Military Training from Joint-Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas. Throughout her career, she has served in a variety of roles, to include unit deployment manager, joint airlift inspector, hazmat material preparer, and aerial port operations instructor. Her enlisted tour of duty includes a combat deployment to Iraq in 2021 in support of OPERATION INHERENT RESOLVE, where she was responsible for all passenger and cargo movement into and out of theatre at Erbil Air Base, Iraq.
Prior to this assignment, she has also operationally deployed to Bahrain and Burkina-Faso as well as to support humanitarian operations in Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricanes Irma and Maria. She most recently served as the Ramp Operations Supervisor at Travis Air Force Base, California, where she was responsible for over a hundred personnel overseeing logistics movements for the Air Force’s “Gateway to the Pacific”.
Technical Sergeant Precious Tonkins
Director of Personnel and Administration, Visiting Lecturer
Technical Sergeant Tonkins is the Director of Personnel and a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Aerospace Studies. Her responsibilities include ensuring that the Detachment complies with personnel policies, directives, and procedures.
TSgt Tonkins enlisted in the U.S. Air Force in November 2014 as a Materiel Management Specialist, she is responsible for leading teams of airmen in inventory management, storage and distribution, and data management. Her role is pivotal to the compliance, safety, and effectiveness of the supply chain systems which support flying missions around the globe. In her ten years as an airman, she has held various roles, such as aircraft parts store technician, decentralized material support supervisor, customer support supervisor, and logistics degree program manager. During her last assignment at Maxwell Air Force Base, she supervised the quality control of degree plans and awarding mechanisms for the Community College of the Air Force's curriculums including logistics, medical supply, and fuels distribution competencies.
She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish, from Campbell University. She has deployed twice in support of the GLOBAL WAR ON TERROR and OPERATION INHERENT RESOLVE. Technical Sergeant Tonkins assumed her duties at Detachment 585 in October 2024.