Colonel nina armagno biography

She grew up in suburban Chicago.
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She was directly responsible to the USSTRATCOM Commander for the development and implementation of national security policy and guidance, military strategy.

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Nina M. Armagno is a Brigadier General in the United States Air Force and is commander of the 45th Space Wing.

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Education[]

Armagno received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1988, from the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado. She graduated Squadron Officer School in 1992, at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama. She received a Master of Arts degree in 1999, in Education Administration and Management, from Chapman University in California. She graduated from the Air Command and Staff College in 2000, by correspondence. In 2002, she participated in an Air Force Legislative Fellowship in Washington, D.C. In 2003, she received a certificate in Legislative Studies from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. She graduated from the Air War College in 2003, by correspondence. In 2007, she received a Master of Science degree, in National Security Studies, from the National War College in Washington, D.C. In 2010, she attended the United States Air Force Enterprise Leadership Seminar at the University of Virginia, Darden School of Business, in Virgi

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Lieutenant General Nina Armagno

Director of Staff, U.S. Space Force

Nina Marion Armagno was born in March 1966 in Dundee, Illinois. She earned a B.S. from the United States Air Force Academy and later received a Master of Arts degree in Education Administration and Management from Chapman University in California. She completed numerous other courses afforded her by the military.

Within the Air Force, she had experience in space systems operations including as a combat mission-ready instructor, evaluator, and flight commander in strategic missile warning, space surveillance, space control, space launch, and theater missile warning mission areas. She was the operations officer at the First Space Launch Squadron, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. She has served at a number of command levels and has held staff assignments at Air Force Headquarters and Space Command Headquarters.

In June 2017, Armagno was reassigned as director of plans and policy at the U.S. Strategic Command, and in July 2020 was transferred to the United States Space Force and promoted to lieutena

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Nina Marian Armagno is a United States Space Forcelieutenant general serving as the director of staff of the Office of the Chief of Space Operations of the Space Force. She is the service's first female general officer, the first female Air Force general officer to transfer to the Space Force, and the only officer to have commanded both the 30th Space Wing and the 45th Space Wing.^[2] Prior to transferring to the Space Force, she was a major general in the United States Air Force, last serving as the director for space programs for Office of the Assistant Secretary for Acquisition.^[3]