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Gilbert Salinas

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Recreation Specialist
Air Force Services
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Gilberto Salinas is a Recreation Specialist and program manager at Air Force Services Center Headquarters, Join Base San Antonio -Lackland AFB. Primary duties include providing oversight and administration of the Air Force Outdoor Recreation program specifically with central program planning and development, training and customer engagement and outreach.

Mr. Salinas entered the Air Force as an enlisted member in May 2003.He completed Services Technical School in July 2013, and since then has served in a variety of Services combat support positions to include Food Services, Mortuary Affairs, Readiness, and Fitness and Sports. In 2005, Mr. Salinas acquired a special experience identifier as an Air Force Exercise Specialist within Fitness and Sports. Mr. Salinas took part in multiple deployments during his enlisted career in support of OIF/OEF as a Services Airman and was an integral part of resiliency efforts and uplifting morale by providing direct mission support via outstanding fitness programming and operational services,

As a fitness center program and special Events manager, Mr. Salinas’s outstanding management capabilities were instrumental in maintaining 1.2 million dollars in fitness equipment supporting more than 8,000 patrons weekly in a deployed environment, His resourcefulness, coordination, and applied safety and risk management capabilities facilitated base wide fitness events to include group exercise classes, guided personal training instruction, Wing Fitness Day, and numerous special events.

After separating in 2010, Mr. Salinas was employed in the private sector and continued providing fitness operation oversight for corporate health and wellness clients within south Texas as well as provided ergonomic consulting within the industrial community as an injury prevention specialist before returning to the Air Force as a civilian employee.

EDUCATION
2016 Bachelor of Science, Exercise Science, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX.
2021 Master of Science, Health and Human Performance, California University of Pennsylvania, California, PA
International Sports Science Association – Certified Personal Trainer
National Academy of Sports Medicine – Certified Personal Trainer
National Academy of Sports Medicine – Corrective Exercise Specialist
National Academy of Sports Medicine – Performance Enhancement Specialist
Precision Nutrition – Level 1 Coach

ASSIGNMENTS OR CAREER CHRONOLOGY
1. September 2003 – January 2007, Fitness Program Manager, 48th Services Squadron, RAF Lakenheath, UK. (October 2003 - May 2004, Food Rations Manager, 379th ESVS, Al Udeid AB, Qatar) (Nov 2005 – June 2006, Fitness Center Program Manager, 386th ESVS, Ali Al Saleem AB, Kuwait)
2. January 2007 – Feb 2010, Fitness Program Manager, 509th Services Squadron, Whiteman AFB, MO. (May 2007 – December 2007 , Fitness Program Manager, Al Udeid AB, Qatar) (May 2008 – Dec 2008, Fitness Program Manager, 386th EFSS, Ali Al Saleem, Kuwait
3. May 2010 – May 2012, Fitness Program Manager, 433rd SVS, Lackland AFB, TX. (September 2011 – March 2012, Fitness Program Manager, Al Udeid, AB, Qatar
4. May 2010 – May 2012, Air Force Exercise Specialist-NAF, 802 FSS, JBSA-Lackland, TX
5. May 2012 – May 2013, Fitness Assessment Cell –GS, 509th FSS, Whiteman AFB, MO
6. May 2013 – May 2016, Exercise Specialist, HealthFitness Inc., Austin, TX
7. June 2016 – November 2018, Injury Prevention Specialist, Fit For Work, San Antonio, TX
8. November 2018 – May 2020, Recreation Specialist Recharge for Resilency, AFSVC, JBSA-Lackland, TX
9. May 2020 – Present, Recreation Specialist, Outdoor Recreation, AFSVC, JBSA-Lackland, TX

Contact:
gilberto.salinas.6@us.af.mil



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