Jerome J. Rogers is the Commander of the 166th [Aircraft] Maintenance Squadron in the Delaware Air National Guard based in New Castle. His unit supports the state’s Air Mobility mission by providing reliable C-130H aircraft to meet the cargo and personnel delivery demand for the Air Force, Joint and Coalition partners.

In 2004 he graduated from Dowling College-Long Island with a degree in Aeronautics upon which the native New Yorker received a commission in the U.S. Air Force and was assigned to Dover Air Force Base. After completing his MBA from Wilmington University in 2007 and (later) his tour in Dover, Jerome decided to stay in Delaware and transferred to the Air Force Reserve while taking on a supervisor role at the Invista Nylon plant in Seaford. Just a few years later Jerome was requested back to federal service to serve a year as the New-Technology Fielding Manager for the US Joint Forces command in Baghdad Iraq. Upon his return he served in several posts at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst New Jersey, the Pentagon, and Kandahar Afghanistan in such duties as logistics management, innovation operations, and Continuous Process Improvement among others. In 2013 he settled down to restart his civilian career with KraftHeinz in Dover as the Maintenance Area Production Manager. Jerome spent nearly five years with KraftHeinz and during that time was activated to deploy again this time to an undisclosed location in SW Asia where he managed over 140 personnel and fifteen KC-10 aircraft. Shortly thereafter he was requested by name for his current assignment with the Delaware Air National Guard.

He lives in Felton with his wife Michelle and twin daughters Ava and Zoe.