Gaillard R. Peck, Jr., is an Air Force Academy graduate and retired US Air Force colonel. His career included assignments to Saudi Arabia during the Iran/Iraq War and as an operational F-15 Eagle pilot and commander in Japan. Peck retired from active duty in 1988, and since 1998 he has been an F-15C, F-22, and Special Ops academic instructor at the USAF Weapons School at Nellis AFB. He lives in Las Vegas, Nevada.