Retired Brigadier General and highly-decorated combat veteran Greg Touhill is thankful for his 30 years of public service in the United States Air Force (USAF) because it provided him with the time and place to hone his leadership skills. Touhill served in several commands around the world, including U.S. Transportation, Central and Strategic Commands, and spearheaded the creation of USAF’s cyberspace operations training programs. “The military was my leadership laboratory and the crucible upon which I forged my leadership skills initially,” he says. “I can’t thank my senior non-commissioned officers who taught and trained me as a lieutenant through general enough.”
One of Touhill’s stand-out accomplishments is leading the team that created RIPRnet (Radio-over-Internet Protocol Routed Network). Developed to help better support troops driving convoys in Iraq, RIPRnet is a U.S. military network that allows system controllers and deployed personnel to connect radios in remote locations to local dispatch consoles exchanging radio voice data over an IP-routed network.