He currently serves as the senior enlisted adviser to the chief operations officer and is the enlisted space operations career field manager for space systems operators from the Air Force's headquarters in Washington, D.C. "I was going to do four years and get out."īentivegna transferred from the Air Force into the Space Force in September 2020. I didn't do extremely well in high school. The way he saw it, being a veteran would look good on a resume and could help him get a job as a fireman or a police officer, like some of his friends back home. He was just two months married, and boot camp in Texas was far away from his native New Jersey. When he was getting ready to ship off to basic military training in the late summer of 1994, he thought his career as a young airman would last four to six years max. I've always been able to count on him to point out blind spots and to hold me accountable."īentivegna said that he did not begin his military service expecting to make a career out of it. "He's very comfortable kind of speaking truth to whomever it is, including me, and he's always been good. "I think he's a really good testament to the Space Force value of courage," Towberman said. One of the qualities that struck him was Bentivegna’s ability to hold his fellow service members accountable. Towberman praised Saltzman's pick in an interview with on Saturday, saying he's run into Bentivegna several times throughout his career.
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