Michael Minotto is a former United States Marine Infantryman/Scout Sniper and currently on active duty in the US Navy with a total of 25 years of service.  He has 12 deployments, 3 of which to either Iraq or Afghanistan. 

          With his experience from the Marine Corps and during his combat operations he is a proven effective and mature leader with extensive experience within foreign internal defense training, combat skills, basic and advanced weapons, close quarter battle, convoy operations and small boat operations in a riparian environment.