Lt Col Robert Payne

 Lt Col Robert Payne is Commander and Professor of Aerospace Studies at Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps (AFROTC) Detachment 605, North Carolina A&T State University. Detachment 605 recruits, educates, trains, motivates, selects, and commissions officer candidates through a comprehensive college program.  It is the only AFROTC Detachment in the Piedmont Triad area, serving cadets from 10 different colleges and universities. Lt Col Payne was commissioned in June 1991 via AFROTC Detachment 432A at the University of South Alabama in Mobile, AL upon graduation with a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics.  He has served in a variety of wing and staff positions.  He is a Master Space and Missile Operator with experience working with the Defense Support Program Satellite System and the Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missile.   Prior to his current assignment, Lt Col Payne was the Operations Officer for the 741st Missile Squadron at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota.

Captain Kory Knowles

Captain Kory Knowles is the Commandant of Cadets and an Assistant Professor of Aerospace Studies at AFROTC Detachment 605, North Carolina A&T State University.

Capt Knowles earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Information Systems Management from Colorado Christian University and was commissioned in August 2001 after completing the Air Force Officer Training School. Prior to his assignment at Detachment 605, he was a Communications and Information Officer with the Judge Advocate General Corps at Maxwell AFB Alabama.

Major Allison R. Chisholm

Major Allison R. Chisholm is the Unit Admissions Officer and Assistant Professor of Aerospace Studies at Detachment 605, Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps (AFROTC), North Carolina A&T State University.