Brandon Westling
U.S. Air Force
Biography
Major Brandon Westling is a U.S. Air Force Officer serving as a Defense Fellow on Capitol Hill in the office of Congresswoman Madeline Bordallo. A 2006 graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy, Brandon is a C-17 Evaluator Pilot with over 1,000 combat hours and has completed six deployed rotations in the Middle East between 2009 and 2016. He most recently served as the Deputy Director of C-17 Special Operations at Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina coordinating the global employment of the nation’s Special Forces personnel in anti-terrorism operations. Brandon is a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Weapons School and has experience integrating air mobility operations with both Joint and Coalition Forces around the globe. (This bio is current to when the participant joined FDD’s National Security Network.)