Patrick K. Gamble, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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United States general
Date of Birth: 12-Nov-1945
Place of Birth: Fresno, California, United States
Profession: military officer
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
About Patrick K. Gamble
- Patrick K.
- Gamble (born November 12, 1945) is a retired President of the University of Alaska and a retired Air Force General whose assignments included service as Commander, Pacific Air Forces, Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii.Gamble entered the Air Force in 1967 through the four-year Reserve Officer Training Corps program at Texas A&M University.
- He flew 394 combat missions as a forward air controller in the O-1 Bird Dog in Vietnam.
- He has commanded a fighter squadron and three wings.
- Before assuming his current position, he was deputy chief of staff for air and space operations, Headquarters U.S.
- Air Force, the Pentagon, Washington, D.C.
- He retired from the Air Force on May 1, 2001. Following his service in the Air Force, Gamble became a senior executive for the Alaska Railroad, where he succeeded Bill Sheffield as President of the railroad.
- In 2010, he retired from the railroad and accepted appointment as president of the University of Alaska, succeeding Mark R.
- Hamilton, himself a retired general (Army).
- In December 2014, he announced his resignation from the University of Alaska: Anchorage, and he was succeeded in September 2015 by Jim Johnsen.
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