Lt. Col. Dwight Rabe, USAF, graduated from the U.S. Air Force Academy in 2006, was commissioned as a second lieutenant, and has served on active duty since that time. He graduated undergraduate pilot training in 2008 and has since attained over 2,900 flying hours as an instructor, aircraft commander, and first pilot in various U.S. military aircraft with multiple deployments. 

He is currently assigned to the Air War College and serving in a deployed leadership position overseas. He was previously assigned to the Pentagon as the director of the Department of Air Force Fellows Program, overseeing administrative requirements and outreach for 170 Air and Space Force Fellows assigned to universities, think tanks, corporations, federally funded labs, and government agencies. 

He also previously served as the chief of Aviation Safety Division at Headquarters U.S. Air Forces Europe-Air Forces Africa at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, and the executive officer to the Senior Defense Official/Defense Attaché at U.S. Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan.

Lt. Col. Rabe holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (U.S. Air Force Academy, 2006), a Master of Arts in Diplomacy (conflict resolution track) (Norwich University, Vt., 2012), and a Postgraduate Certificate in European Union Policy Making (Vrijes Universiteit Brussels, Belgium, 2022). He is a graduated Defense Ventures Fellow immersed with Catapult Ventures, a Silicon Valley based venture capital fund, and he is currently a serving board member for the House of Blue Hope, a U.S. nonprofit focused on ending child poverty through education, one child at a time.

He has been a MOAA member since 2014.