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Brian Pukall

Air Force Fellow

    Term

    September 3, 2013 — May 31, 2014

    Professional affiliation

    Colonel, United States Air Force; most recently Commander, 31st Mission Support Group, Aviano AB, Italy

    Wilson Center Projects

    "Building Partner Capacity Roles for USAF Combat Support Forces: Benefits for US-Mexico Security Cooperation"

    Full Biography

    Colonel Brian Pukall’s last assignment was as 31st Mission Support Group Commander, Aviano Air Base, Italy. There he led mission support and logistics functions for a base community of 9,000. Together these units ensured the wing’s ability to mobilize, deploy and employ combat airpower. They also sustained the base’s in-place missions, its workforce and their families, and base infrastructure worth over $4 billion, while simultaneously providing security for the base and its surety mission. Prior to that, he served as the AETC Commander’s Executive Officer, instructed at the Air Command and Staff College and served as 21st Operational Weather Squadron Commander in Germany.  He completed a joint assignment at US Southern Command serving as a Political-Military Affairs Officer and as the J-5’s Executive Officer.  Colonel Pukall entered the Air Force in 1992. He speaks Italian and Spanish and, in addition to his meteorological specialty, is also a Regional Affairs Strategist.

    Major Publications

    • Detection of Cirrus Clouds at 1.13 μm in AVIRIS Scenes Over Land
    • MODTRAN4: Radiative Tansfer Modeling for Remote Sensing
    • A Comparison of Advect Cloud Model and Fifth-Generation Mesoscale Model Total Fractional Cloud Forecasts