FIGHTING FOR OUR COMMUNITY VALUES.
PROVEN LEADERSHIP
ROGER MOSELEY Integrity is core
HONOR, SERVE & PROTECT
PALMER LAKE & OUR VETERANS.
VISION &
PRIORITIES
PROVEN LEADERSHIP.
PROTECTING PALMER LAKE.
Defending our night skies, small-town character, and smart growth — with hands-on experience and unwavering integrity.
Following our municipal code and using the Master Plan as a strong guide to keep the code relevant, managing our tax dollars for the citizens and the water enterprise for its customers, and doing smart growth to keep our community close knit. Keeping Palmer Lake’s Night Skies Dark, Our Community Close-Knit, and Growth Smart.
SMART GROWTH
& NATURE
From designing and building his own home to building planes and managing massive aerospace facilities programs like the B-2 bomber, Roger understands project impacts that would be acceptable for our Town and will balance development with nature. He’ll keep growth aligned with Palmer Lake’s Master Plan, preserving wildlife corridors and our small-town feel.
PROTECT OUR
NIGHT SKIES
Our night skies are as important as our daytime views, to us and to our wildlife. We have a rare gift that is important to the feel of our community and we need to keep that in mind when we consider development. Roger’s flown stealth missions and managed sensitive airspace — he knows how important our dark night skies are. He’ll work to protect them, so Palmer Lake keeps its natural wonder.
WILL ENFORCE THE MASTER PLAN & TOWN CODE
Roger’s managed billion-dollar budgets, but still pulled his own sewer permits and ran the lines himself. He knows building codes inside out, ensuring projects that serve residents first — not big developers.
COLLABORATIVE LEADERSHIP
Whether leading 2,500 people or just a handful, Roger found success by listening and delegating authority. He’ll bring that collaborative, small-team mindset to Palmer Lake’s challenges.
SPOTLIGHT ON ROGER'S INTEGRITY
NPR spotlighted Roger’s fight for integrity in government contracts — testament to his values.
When you have to tell President Reagan for two years that you’ve only solved ⅔ of your technical problems and you don’t know if his favorite project is going to work, you
need to have earned his trust through honesty and shared responsibility. In the end the hoped for success was achieved because from high to low, we stuck together.
Capt. Roger Moseley sits on the wing of an A-37 attack aircraft at Bien Hoa Air Base in Vietnam in 1971. His call sign in Vietnam was Ramjet — "because I don't have a lot of patience," Moseley says.
MEET ROGER
A Life Built on Family, Service & Building Together
I was born in St. George, Utah and spent my first year in a fire tower on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, then raised on a small ranch and deer hunting camp 20 miles north in the lava beds. My first job was stirring a tub of lye soap over a fire pit, and I have always found joy in building things—whether it was model planes as a kid or designing and constructing our own home later in life. After a couple more moves, started school in North Carolina, then Texas, Utah, Germany, Texas, Pennsylvania, Nebraska, and Oklahoma, finally graduating from Lawton High School. My adult life was just a peripatetic, beginning in Colorado, then North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona, Vietnam, Louisiana, California, Nevada, Ohio, Massachusetts, Virginia, and finally, back to Colorado. If you counted all the houses, apartments, military training locations, and contract proposal operations, then my present home is number 49. My love of the outdoors has stayed constant, from ocean kayaking in remote coves to exploring the backcountry in an Airstream my better half, Marty, and I rebuilt ourselves—always preferring the quiet of the boonies over crowded parks.
After graduating from the U.S. Air Force Academy with a degree in aerospace engineering, I earned a Master’s from North Carolina State. I then took an oath to defend this country that I still honor today, flying 345 combat missions in Vietnam, earning a Purple Heart, and later being selected for the elite Air Force Test Pilot School. I had the privilege to command the first squadron of stealth fighters (F-117) and serve as Deputy Director of the B-2 bomber program.
My civilian career took me to Lockheed Martin’s legendary Skunk Works, managing cutting-edge programs like the flight test of the single-stage-to-orbit X-33 and leading the Stratolaunch project—the largest aircraft ever built. I even found myself buying two 747s in a laundromat deal worth $50 million. Along the way, I attended Defense Systems Management College for an immersive course in federal contract law, budgeting, and congressional appropriations, followed by a Harvard fellowship in advanced management and negotiation. I later served as Senior VP at JT3, overseeing 2,500 employees across four major weapons test ranges.
Yet the same hands that worked billion-dollar contracts also dug trenches for sewer lines on our house project—because I designed it, pulled the permits, ran the utilities, and did much of the work myself. I know building codes, the permit process, surveying, and how to get a project done responsibly and under budget.
The best titles I’ve ever held, though, are Father, Grand-father and Husband. My wife, Marty, and I have shared countless adventures, and nothing makes me prouder than watching our family and friends thrive.
Whether managing multibillion-dollar aerospace programs or designing a simple kayak that can handle the open ocean, I’ve always believed in listening to others to arrive at the best solutions. That’s a lesson that’s stuck with me from commanding squadrons all the way to hammering boards on my own porch.
Very respectfully,
Roger
Integrity Meets Ingenuity
“Don’t Promote This Guy”
Lockheed sent Roger to a three-week leadership assessment — held in rustic Maryland cabins, the very same ones where the Israeli-Arab peace accords were negotiated. It was run by three sharp lawyers, who each week filed blunt reports back to Lockheed:
• Week one: “We think this guy might be smart.”
• Week two: “We’re a little worried about this guy.”
• Week three: “Definitely do not promote this guy.”
When Roger returned, the President of Skunk Works called him in and said, “We got three messages about you.” Roger grinned, “I bet they said, ‘don’t promote this guy.’” The President laughed: “Exactly. So I’m promoting you.”
Roger’s honesty and ability to poke fun at himself built trust — and taught him that listening to others always led to better solutions than any one person could come up with.
Buying Two 747s in a Laundromat
When Roger was program manager for the StratoLaunch — the largest airplane ever built — he needed two 747s to strip down for parts. By pure chance, he ran into an older gentleman he’d never met before in a California laundromat. Within 30 minutes, over casual conversation and firm handshakes, they sealed a $50 million deal for the aircraft.
Roger and his team then carefully disassembled the planes, saving landing gear, flight controls, and engines — all to build something entirely new. It’s his favorite story, because it shows that relationships and trust are at the heart of getting even the biggest projects off the ground.
"We can't tell the truth." - Northrup Grumman
Roger Will Stand Up to Corruption and
Protect Your Hard-Earned Tax Dollars:
Roger's integrity was featured in the CBS "Whistleblower" television
program where Northrup Grumman, after 17 ½ years, was forced to settle
a fraud lawsuit for $134 million as soon as Roger flew in to testify.
Watch the full episode here.
Let's Make The Palmer Lake Star Shine Bright Together