Brett Wilson enlisted in the United States Air Force in May 2018 and began his service by attending the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California, where he studied Levantine Arabic. Upon completing his language training, he was reclassified as an Operations Manager and stationed at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in North Carolina. There, he served for four years with the 4th Civil Engineering Squadron, coordinating daily logistics, maintenance scheduling, and project support, as well as overseeing materiel procurement and warehouse inventory management. During his tenure, he completed two overseas deployments — one to Al Dhafra Air Base in the United Arab Emirates, where he supported Operation Allies Refuge by helping to establish temporary shelters for refugees, and another to Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia, supporting mission-critical infrastructure and operations in joint coalition environments. Brett can be reached at bwilso74@depaul.edu.