Art "Turbo" Tomassetti

US Marine Corps Veteran 

• Twenty seven year United States Marine Corps veteran with experience in Training, Safety and Standardization, and Operations. 
• Combat experience - 39 missions during Operation Desert Storm. 
• Military Awards include the Legion of Merit, two Defense Meritorious Service Medals, Meritorious Service Medal, and Air Medal with "V" device for Valor and numeral three. 

Flight Test Professional

• Graduate of the United States Naval Test Pilot School with more than 15 years of flight test experience. 
• Member of the Joint Strike Fighter Test Force and last lead government pilot for the X-35 Test Team.  The only U.S. Government pilot to fly all three variants of the X-35 aircraft and flew the first ever Short Take-Off, level supersonic dash and vertical landing accomplished on a single flight.   Only pilot to have flown both the X-35 and F-35.  
• Safely completed over 3200 hours of flight time in more than 40 different aircraft. 
• Former President and ​Fellow of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots.  Recipient of the Tony Levier Flight Test Safety Award in 201

Experienced Leader

• Six years experience in the Defense Aerospace industry as the Lockheed Martin USMC F-35 Program Manager
• Commanded Air Test and Evaluation Squadron 23 with over 800 personnel responsible for safe and effective flight test on US Naval Aircraft.
• Commanded the Marine Aviation Detachment at Patuxent River responsible for managing the US Marine Corps Aviation Acquisition Professional workforce.
• Vice Commander of the 33rd Fighter Wing at Eglin AFB and helped establish the Joint Strike Fighter’s Initial Pilot and Maintainer Training Center.   ​

Accomplished Teacher and Facilitator

• Former Instructor for the US Marine Corps Command and Staff College Distant Education program; led seminars in Theory and Nature of War, Strategy, and Operational Planning. 
• Former USMC Weapons and Tactics Instructor and Instructor pilot for Marine Corps F-35 Joint Strike Fighter .

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