Region Commandant

Group Captain Brett Morrell MCIPS MILT RAFR:

Brett Morrell joined the RAF as a Flight Cadet in 1965. His career in the RAF Supply Branch comprised tours as a junior officer including Air Movements in the Middle East, a Flight Commander on Tactical Supply Wing [as a founder member] and a Staff Officer at HQ Near East Air Force during the Cyprus Emergency 1974. Promoted to Sqn Ldr, he commanded the Supply Sqn at RAF Akrotiri from 1980 to 1983 before taking up an assignment as a Contingency Planner at HQ Strike Command for the US/UK Airbridge.

He was then posted to MOD Harrogate on promotion to Wing Commander as the Supply Manager for all the British Fixed Wing airframes then in service. Another in-command appointment followed at RAF St Athan as OC Supply and Support Engineering Wg. After that, he was posted to Saudi Arabia where he became the first British serving officer to work full time in the Saudi Air Force HQ in charge of its Tornado Office.

On return to UK in 1994, he took control of the Logistics Policy desk responsible for implementing the Mobility and Deployed Support study commissioned by the then Air Member for Logistics, driving significant improvements in the RAF's logistic posture vide the 1998 Strategic Defence Review. His last RAF appointment until now was as the Service member of the DLO's Advisory Team set up to keep CDL advised on the developments that led to trading funds for the Defence Aircraft Repair Agency and the Army Base Repair Organisation.

After leaving the RAF, Morrell joined Cranfield University as a Defence Academic teaching undergraduate and post-graduate courses at the Defence Academy (DA) together with research into associated business incubation projects until the Defence Training Review cancelled DA undergraduate work in 2003. His next employment was as the Defence Team Leader working for the S.Com Group, where he was responsible for consultancy and manpower substitution services for the MoD and OGDs. In 2005 he was selected to join the MoD Civil Service as the XO for the Directorate of Command & Battlespace Management and Joint 6 in London. He re-joined to RAF to assume command of the Central and East Region of the Air Cadet Organisation in April 2008.

Brett is married to Ali and they live adjacent to Hinchingbrooke Park, Huntingdon. They have two grown up sons, Guy and Peter, who share their father's interests including exploring, travel, military history, playing contemporary music, hill walking and running.