Mitchell Boling is a Senior Data Analyst with a major Department of Defense contractor. In this role and others, he has been responsible for leading teams in the performance of operations and maintenance on F-16 and F-35 aircraft flight simulation training devices. He also coordinated the metrics and data relating to the health of F-35 flight simulation devices at customer sites across the world. He has held these roles since June 2008, after retiring from the U.S. Air Force as a Senior Master Sergeant. After retiring from the Air Force, he went back to school and earned an MBA.Mitch joined the Air Force in July 1983 and began training as an aircraft maintainer, specifically learning the avionics systems on the F-16 Fighting Falcon. He worked in this same career field for the next twenty-five years and held numerous positions of greater responsibility and authority in the aircraft maintenance arena. He also traveled the world in the performance of his work, with numerous permanent and temporary duty assignments in various locations around the globe.In 2003 he was assigned to Luke Air Force Base, Arizona, as a flight line production superintendent, and then the lead production superintendent. His last post in the Air Force was as the Luke Air Force Base wing avionics manager for the U.S. Air Force’s largest fighter wing. In this demanding position, he reported directly to the maintenance group commander, the CEO of Luke’s aircraft maintenance effort. His responsibilities included leading over 400 avionics personnel and overseeing avionics maintenance on more than 200 F-16 aircraft.Mitch, an Air Force “Brat,” was born in Berlin, Germany in 1963. Growing up, he moved around quite often with his family, eventually settling in Spokane, Washington. After joining the Air Force, he married his life-long love, the former Jodi Chamberlain of Hemet, California. Having known each other since the age of seven and now happily married for over thirty-six years, they are blessed with two grown children and one grandson. Mitch and Jodi reside in Waddell, Arizona.Mitch has discovered a new passion for writing. He has published four books to date, two of which are in the leadership realm and the other two in military fiction. Leadership: A View From the Middle was published in 2019, and Leading From the Middle: Teachers and Coaches was published in 2021. His debut novel, Persian Tomcats was published in early 2022. Working quickly, he followed it up with its sequel, The Last Persian Tomcat, published in November 2022. Read more about this authorRead less about this author