Philip Robinson

Air Vice-Marshal Philip Jeremy Robinson, is a decorated British pilot and senior Royal Air Force officer. RAF career Robinson was commissioned into the Royal Air Force on 7 May 1992 as an acting pilot officer; he was regraded to pilot officer on 7 May 1993. He was promoted to flying officer on 7 May 1994, and to flight lieutenant on 7 November 1997. Having completed his flying training, Robinson was posted to No. 18 Squadron RAF who were then based in Germany. He returned to England in 1997 and was posted to No. 7 Squadron RAF: he was made commanding officer of the squadron in 2005. From 2010 to 2012, he was commanding officer of the Joint Special Forces Aviation Wing. Robinson flew Chinooks with the RAF, and also the Army Air Corps' Lynx. He flew in operations in Bosnia, Albania, Northern Ireland, Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Iraq, Lebanon and Afghanistan. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC) three times for service during the War in Afghanistan and the Iraq War.