Patricia Rose is a retired United States Air Force major general.
On April 21, 2013, USAF Major General Patricia A. "Trish" Rose became the first openly LGBT officer to be promoted to the rank of major general. She was nominated to the rank on December 7, 2012, and pinned on May 31, 2013, in a ceremony led by her direct supervisor, General Janet C. Wolfenbarger, the first female four-star general in the United States Air Force. At the time, Maj Gen Rose was assigned as mobilization assistant to the commander, Air Force Materiel Command, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Her last active duty assignment was as mobilization assistant to the deputy chief of staff for logistics, engineering and force protection, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C. In that capacity, she supported the deputy chief of staff in leadership, management and integration of Air Force logistics readiness, aircraft and missile maintenance, civil engineering and security forces, as well as setting policy and preparing budget estimates that reflected enhancements to productivity, combat readiness and quality of life for Air Force members.
Major General Rose retired on 16 June 2017. She is married to retired Navy LT Julie Roth.
General Rose entered the Air Force through Officer Training School in 1984. Her more notable assignments include mobilization assistant to the director for logistics, engineering, and security assistance, U.S. Pacific Command, and mission director for the U.S. Central Command Deployment and Distribution Operations Center in Southwest Asia, where she directed joint logistics for operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom.
Education
1983 Bachelor of Arts degree in humanities, Providence College, Rhode Island
1988 Squadron Officer School, Maxwell AFB, Alabama
1989 Master of Science degree in education, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, Illinois 2000 NATO Reserve Officer's Course, NATO Defense College, Rome, Italy 2001 Air Command and Staff College, by correspondence 2002 Air War College, by correspondence 2003 Reserve Component National Security Course, National Defense University, Fort Lesley J. McNair, Washington, D.C. 2007 Strategy and Operations Course, Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island 2009 Advanced Joint Professional Military Education, Joint Forces Staff College, Norfolk, Virginia 2011 System Acquisition Management Course, Defense Acquisition University, Fort Belvoir, Virginia 2011 Senior Executives in National and International Security, Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, Massachusetts 2012 Nuclear 400, Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center, Kirkand AFB, New Mexico 2012 Air Force Smart Operations (AFSO21), University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 2012 Pentagon Media Training, Washington, D.C.