| Brigadier General Kenn Wiggins is a retired military officer (Brig. Gen. Delaware Air National Guard, Retired) a native of Newark, Delaware, a third generation Delaware Guardsman, and a career Air Force veteran. A graduate of the University of Delaware, General Wiggins also holds a Master’s degree from National Defense University in National Resource Strategy. He is a veteran of over 37 years of service to the Air National Guard and the United States Air Force. He held various positions in Aircraft Maintenance, Public Affairs, Recruiting, Personnel, Speechwriting, Strategic Planning, and Training during his military career. Kennard was a contributing author to Histories of Newark, 1758-2008: Seventy-five Stories about Newark, Delaware and its Citizens (Paul Bauernschmidt, Deborah Haskell, L Rebecca Johnson Melvin, and Shaun D Mullen; Newark (Del.): Office of the Mayor, Wallflowers Press, Delaware Heritage Commission, 2007). He is also the author of military histories of focusing on the state: Delaware Air National Guard (Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2008); Delaware Army National Guard (Charleston: Arcadia Publishing, 2010); Dover Air Force Base (Charleston: Arcadia Publishing, 2011); Delaware Aviation by Jan Churchill and Kennard R. Wiggins Jr. (Charleston: Arcadia Publishing, 2014); and Delaware in World War I (Charleston: The History Press, 2015) |