Mark Thomas recently retired from a thirty-eight-year career in the U.S. Air Force and intelligence community. Thomas spent most of his Air Force career as an intelligence analyst, operations support officer, and international affairs officer. During his career with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), he was the liaison with NATO Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe, the U.S. Northern Command, and U.S. Air Forces in Europe and Africa. His career-long passion was supporting U.S. and foreign partner deployed forces with accurate, timely, and relevant intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance. Thomas and his wife are residents of Provo and are the parents of five children and have eleven grandchildren.