Executive background

Executive Operational Background 

Michael B

Expeditionary Air Mobility & Aerial Port Operations Consultant

Michael is a former Air Mobility Command Mobile Aerial Port Squadron (MAPS) Team Chief with extensive globa airlift and cargo operations experience spanning Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Central America.

He began his mobility career as a Dover-based ALCE “Red Hatter,” participating in crisis airlift operations during the 1978 Shaba II crisis in Zaire, supporting the movement of French Foreign Legion forces via Corsica–Dakar–Zaire air bridge operations.

Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Mike served with the 2nd and 4th Mobile Aerial Port Squadrons, graduated from U.S. Army Airdrop  Rigger School supporting contingency and exercise operations worldwide, including:

    • Operations Big Pine (Honduras) supporting Special Forces and SEAL deployments

    • Multiple Team Spirit exercises in the Republic of Korea

    • Alaska airlift operations

    • Higher Headquarters Airlift Controller duties coordinating airlift assets and cargo flows across Europe, Africa, and the Middle East

As a Team Chief, he led and humanitarian aerial port operations in:

    • Turkey and the Middle East

    • Desert Shield and Desert Storm, including Rafha LZ (KSA)

    • Operation Provide Comfort (Sirsenk LZ, Iraq)

    • Operation Provide Promise (Zagreb and Split, Croatia under UNHCR)

    • Operation Sharp Edge (Monrovia, Liberia) supporting ECOMOG forces

Following active-duty service, Michael served as a logistics contractor with DynCorp in Muscat, Oman and various Middle East locations, and later as Chief of Air Cargo and Ramp Services for KBR at Tuzla Air Base, Bosnia, supporting NATO and special operations elements.

Across multiple decades of service and contracting roles, he has established and led ramp and cargo operations at austere airfields across the globe, aircraft ground handling, contingency cargo operations, and multinational airlift integration missions in high-risk and infrastructure-limited environments.

Many more operations too numerous to list.

Prior Commercial HAZMAT cargo instructor. IATA, CFR49, IMDG 

Mike now provides private contractiing and advisory services to government and remote industry, NGO's in expeditionary air mobility planning and operations,deployable aerial port capability design, and HA/DR (Humanitarian Aid/Disaster Relief) logistics integration and is the founder and CEO of Expeditionary Air Services LLC

Highly Proficient In Thai and Laotian Languages, well versed in both cultures. 

Excellent rapport with Thai Armed Forces. Available for Joint US/ Thai operations or exercises also.