daren sorenson, dirctor

Daren Sorenson was born in Madison Wisconsin in January, 1971. He grew up in the mid-west, in a small town, south of St Louis Missouri. He graduated from St. Louis University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and was a Distinguished Graduate from ROTC in 1993.

Daren attended pilot training at Laughlin AFB, Texas in 1996 and was a Distinguished Graduate from his class and went on to fly the F-15E Strike Eagle for the remainder of his career. He accumulated over 2,500 hours in the F-15E and graduated from the USAF Weapons School in 2002. His operational assignments included the 494th Fighter Squadron at Royal Air Force Base Lakenheath, UK and the 335th Fighter Squadron at Seymour Johnson AFB, NC.

He deployed to combat eight different times in support of Operation Allied Force, Operation Northern Watch, Operation Southern Watch, Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom. In 2003, then Captain Sorenson was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross while flying over Iraq in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Eight years later in 2011, now Lt Col Sorenson was again awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross while flying over Afghanistan in Operation Enduring Freedom.

Lt Col Sorenson served as Commander, 17th Weapons Training Squadron at the USAF Weapons School from 2009 to 2011. Lt Col Sorenson’s last combat deployment was as Deputy Operations Group Commander at Bagram AB, Afghanistan. Daren retired from active duty in 2014 from Nellis AFB, NV and moved to San Diego, CA to pursue a second career in the defense industry.