Lt. Col. Patrick “Crate” Dixon is a foreign area officer and senior pilot with over 3,000 hours in the C-208B Grand Caravan, C-17A Globemaster and MQ-1B Predator aircraft. He most recently worked as an air advisor with a focus on building foreign partnership security capacity in the U.S. Southern Command and U.S. Indo-Pacific Command areas of responsibility. He also served as the Air Force Section Chief in U.S. Security Cooperation Office (SCO) Brazil.