Retired Colonel Rob Maness enlisted in the US Air Force in November 1978. Graduating from the US Navy’s Explosive Ordnance Disposal School in 1980, he served in three assignments countering terrorist bomb makers before being selected for Officer and Flight training in 1985. He led numerous combat flying operations and was also on duty in the Pentagon during the September 11, 2001 attack. Rob served on the Pentagon Joint Staff in nuclear operations, commanded a B-1 bomber combat Squadron, was Vice Commander of the Air Force’s only Airborne Intelligence Wing, and commanded a Wing at Kirtland AFB NM, before retiring from active duty in December 2011. Rob was an executive for Entergy Corporation, a Fortune 500 utility company after his military service and ran for US Senate in Louisiana as an America First candidate in 2014. He currently owns and operates Iron Liberty Group LLC, the digital publishing company operating his website robmaness.com, social media channels, and his streaming tv show, The Rob Maness Show on the World View Tube network. Maness is also the chairman of GatorPAC and its Veterans Leadership Fund supporting constitutional conservative and veteran candidates for public office. Colonel Maness endorsed President Trump and is a member of the campaign’s Veterans and Military Families Coalition for Trump, is President of Mississippi Veterans for Trump, Vice President of the Mississippi Conservative Coalition, and is the Mississippi Veterans Coalition Director for the Convention of States. Colonel Maness is a graduate of the University of Tampa, Cum Laude, and holds three Master’s degrees from: Harvard University’s Kennedy School, the Air Command and Staff College, and the US College of Naval Warfare. Maness’s proudest achievements are being a Husband to Candy, Dad to five sons and a daughter, and PawPaw to 5 grandchildren.
