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Sean McClintock

U.S. Navy

Biography

Last updated: May 9, 2018

Sean McClintock is a U.S. Naval Officer serving on Capitol Hill as a Defense Fellow. As a naval aviator with sixteen years of service, he has deployed around the world in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, the Global War on Terrorism, anti-piracy operations, freedom of navigation operations in the pacific and humanitarian assistance / disaster relief operations. Sean also completed a Joint Tour at U.S. Cyber Command at Fort Meade, MD as a Joint Planner where he led the creation of U.S. Cyber Command’s first Joint Interagency Coordination Group to ensure whole of government responses to difficult cyber operational and policy issues. He earned a B.S. in Political Science and a B.S. in English from the U.S. Naval Academy as well as a M.A. in National Security and Strategic Studies from the Naval War College and is a graduate of the Joint Forces Staff College

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