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  1. In 2000, Day was appointed Air Member for Personnel and Commander-in-Chief Personnel and Training Command. [1] In 2001, he was appointed Commander-in-Chief Strike Command. [1] Day retired from the Royal Air Force in 2003 and joined BAE Systems as their Senior Military Adviser. [2]

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  3. John Day was appointed as Chair of the Board of Governors on July 14, 2011. He is currently serving his second three-year term. A lawyer by profession, John had a long and respected career before he retired from Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP in 2011, where he was a senior lawyer and partner.

  4. Mar 4, 2024 · 2024-03-04 - Sir John Day, born July 15 1947, died February 9 2024. AIR CHIEF MARSHAL SIR JOHN DAY, who has died aged 76, was one of the RAF’S leading helicopter pilots and commanders who rose to become the Commander-in-chief of Strike Command during the early operations in Afghanista­n and in the build-up to the Iraq War in 2003.

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    John Day was born in England in 1947, however during the first nine years of his life, he spent a considerable amount of time in north east India where his father worked as a Tea Planter. He was educated at The King's School, Canterbury and at Imperial College London from where he graduated with a degree in Aeronautical Engineering. During his time...

    Following initial officer training and flying training, Day was posted to RAF Odiham flying the Wessex helicopter. He went on to command No. 72 Squadron, flying Wessex helicopters, in Northern Ireland in 1983and returned to Odiham as Station Commander. Day attended the Royal College of Defence Studies in 1990 and then took up the post of Director o...

    Day became a senior military adviser to BAE Systems in 2003. The independent watchdog monitoring the movement of officials to companies recommended that he should wait a year before taking up his new BAE job, due to his history as head of RAF Strike Command. The committee warned that Day "had been involved with Air Force Board decisions which would...

    In 1995, following the Chinook Helicopter Crash on the Mull of Kintyre, Day was the Reviewing Officer of the Board of Inquiry which had failed to find a cause of the accident. Despite a lack of Accident Data Recorder and Cockpit Voice Recorder, Day concluded that pilot error was the cause of the crash and found the pilots guilty of gross negligence...

  5. Feb 28, 2018 · Day’s Influential Background. John Day was born February 18, 1797, at Hicks Ford, Virginia. A cabinet maker and preacher by trade, Day was an African-American colonist of Liberia who had experienced a world of harsh pain and division in America. He sought to bring the hope of salvation to African people he understood to be in desperate need.

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  7. Feb 9, 2024 · Tributes have been paid to three long-standing and highly regarded figures who between them dedicated years of service to the East Midlands Chamber. Chamber board member John Robinson, former president and chairman of the board of Leicestershire Chamber John Day, and former Leicestershire Chamber head of policy Max Boden all passed away in recent weeks. […]