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CW5 Michael Pietron currently serves as the Chief Technical Advisor (CTA) for the Army Futures Command (AFC) Command & Control Cross-Functional Team (C2 CFT), Aberdeen Proving Ground (APG), Maryland, supporting Next Generation Command & Control (NGC2) efforts.
Hailing from Bellevue, Nebraska CW5 Pietron enlisted in the Army in 1995 as a 31R Multichannel Transmission Systems Operator-Maintainer. In 2008, he became a Warrant Officer as a 250N, Network Management Technician.
CW5 Pietron’s previous assignments as a Warrant Officer: Tactical Hub Node (THN) Chief & Platoon Leader, 3rd Infantry Division (3ID), Division Special Troops Battalion (DSTB), Ft. Stewart, GA; Brigade Network Management Technician, 3ID, 2nd Heavy Brigade Combat Team (HBCT), Ft. Stewart, GA; Network Operations Chief, 1st Signal Brigade, 304th Expeditionary Signal Battalion (ESB), Camp Humphreys, South Korea; Executive Communications Chief, United Nations Command (UNC)/Combined Forces Command (CFC)/United States Forces Korea (USFK), Yongsan, South Korea; Chief of Network Operations, 21st Signal Brigade, 302nd Signal Battalion, United States Army Signal Activity (USASA) Regional Hub Node (RHN), Ft. Bragg, NC; Chief Technical Advisor (CTA), 1st Special Forces Command (Airborne), 112th Signal Battalion (Special Operations) (Airborne), Ft. Bragg, NC; Network Operations Chief and Technical Advisor, United States Army Special Operations Command (USASOC), 3rd Operational Support Group (Airborne), Ft. Bragg, NC; Aviation Communications Element (ACE) Officer-in-Charge (OIC), United States Army Special Operations Aviation Command (USASOAC), Aviation Technology Office (ATO), Ft. Eustis, VA. CW5 Pietron has deployed to Kosovo, Iraq, and to various locations serving as a Joint Task Force (JTF) J6.
CW5 Pietron’s military education and schools include Warrant Officer Advanced Course (WOAC), Warrant Officer Intermediate Level Education (WOILE), Warrant Officer Senior Service Education (WOSSE), Army Space Cadre Basic Course (ASCBC), Army Space Control and Fundamentals Course (ASCFC), Basic Airborne Course (BAC), Survival Evasion Resistance Escape (SERE) Course, and Combat Skills Course (CSC).
CW5 Pietron is married to former 68W Combat Medical Specialist and Operations Iraqi Freedom (OIF) Veteran Johanna Pietron. They have two daughters and two sons – Isabella (18), Brianna (16), and Nathaniel (17). Their oldest son, Tristan (24), currently serves in the US Army as a paratrooper assigned to 3rd Brigade Combat Team (BCT), 82nd Airborne Division, Ft. Bragg, NC.
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