Lieutenant Colonel Adam Gorzkowski currently serves as an instructor in the Department of Political Science at the U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado. As an Instructor of Political Science, he teaches classes on National Security, International Relations, and European Politics. He is an Air Force Foreign Area Officer and was most recently assigned to the U.S. Embassy in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. As the Deputy Chief of Military Cooperation in Tajikistan, he was responsible for executing an annual $40M security cooperation and security assistance portfolio with Tajikistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Defense, National Guard, and Border Guard Forces.

Lieutenant Colonel Gorzkowski is a 2010 graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy where he majored in Civil Engineering and minored in Russian Language. He commissioned as a Civil Engineer and has held Engineering Flight Commander, Operations Flight Commander, and Readiness and Emergency Management Flight Commander positions. He has deployed four times, with responsibilities ranging from mentoring Afghan National Security Forces, to constructing Ebola Treatment Units in Liberia, and evaluating contingency airfields for U.S. Central Command, including surveying and designing the first C-17-capable logistics node in Syria.

Master of Arts, International Security Studies, Universität der Bundeswehr München, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany (2019)

Bachelor of Science, Civil Engineering, U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colorado (2010)

July 2023 – Present, Instructor of Political Science, U.S. Air Force Academy

July 2021 – July 2023, Deputy Chief, Office of Military Cooperation – Tajikistan, U.S. Embassy Dushanbe, Tajikistan

January 2020 – June 2021, Chief of Wing Plans and Programs, 39th Air Base Wing, Incirlik Air Base, Turkey

September 2018 – December 2019, Student, George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany

September 2015 – August 2018, Deputy Engineering Flight Commander, 52d Civil Engineer Squadron, Spangdahlem AB, Germany (July 2016 – January 2017, Officer In Charge, Airfield Pavement Evaluation Team, Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar; January 2018 – July 2018, Operations Flight Commander, 386th Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron, Undisclosed Location, Southwest Asia)

September 2014 – September 2015, Engineering Flight Commander, 65th Civil Engineer Squadron, Lajes Field, Azores, Portugal (October 2014 – December 2014, Contracting Officer’s Representative, Liberia)

September 2013 – September 2014, Readiness and Emergency Management Flight Commander, 51st Civil Engineer Squadron, Osan Air Base, Republic of Korea

August 2010 – September 2013, Programs Flight Commander, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, WA (January 2013 – July 2013, Engineering Mentor, Herat, Afghanistan)

Defense Meritorious Service Medal

Meritorious Service Medal

Air Force Commendation Medal with three oak leaf clusters

Army Commendation Medal

Joint Service Achievement Medal

Air Force Achievement Medal

International Relations

Central/Eastern Europe and Russia

Economic Development