Colonel Mike Fazio is an active duty Air Force Special Tactics Officer. His experience the past 22 years includes synchronizing ground and airpower in Africa, the Middle East, and the Indo-Pacific. As a practitioner of irregular warfare, Mike focuses on delivering special reconnaissance, direct action, and personnel recovery capabilities to special operations missions. Mike is a distinguished graduate from Boston University's Air Force ROTC program and holds master's degrees from Air University (2012), Johns Hopkins University (2017), and National Defense University (2022). He currently works at the Pentagon on the Joint Staff, focused on special operations that support great power competition and integrated deterrence. While proud of his military service, the most rewarding thing in his life is being husband to his wife Julia, the finest intel analyst in the FBI, and father to his two children Finnegan and Fiona.

Colonel Mike Fazio is an active duty Air Force Special Tactics Officer. His experience the past 22 years includes synchronizing ground and airpower in Africa, the Middle East, and the Indo-Pacific. As a practitioner of irregular warfare, Mike focuses on delivering special reconnaissance, direct action, and personnel recovery capabilities to special operations missions. Mike is a distinguished graduate from Boston University's Air Force ROTC program and holds master's degrees from Air University (2012), Johns Hopkins University (2017), and National Defense University (2022). He currently works at the Pentagon on the Joint Staff, focused on special operations that support great power competition and integrated deterrence. While proud of his military service, the most rewarding thing in his life is being husband to his wife Julia, the finest intel analyst in the FBI, and father to his two children Finnegan and Fiona.