Ryan Aarestad

Military Service:

• Rank: Staff Sergeant

  Branch/Position: Air Force

  Period: September 2026

  Occupation: 1B471 - Cyberspace Defense Operations, Craftsman

  Security Clearance: Top Secret Clearance

  Duties Description:
  Performs duties to develop, sustain, and enhance network capabilities to defend national interests from attack and to create effects in cyberspace to achieve national objectives. They will enable net-centric command and control (C2) systems to synchronize cross-domain attack operations and de-conflict friendly use of cyberspace. Conduct network attack, network defense, and network exploitation using on-net tools, techniques and procedures to achieve COCOM and national requirements. They will partner with Joint and coalition services to defend net-centric operations. They will detect, deny, disrupt, deceive, and mitigate adversarial access to sovereign national networks and systems. The duties performed by Cyberspace Defense Operations include: operating network and computer-based detection and deception systems; performing technical analysis of networks and systems in support of national level agencies to determine effective defensive maneuvers in case of attack.

• Rank: Staff Sergeant

  Branch/Position: Air Force

  Period: September 2026

  Occupation: 1C471 - Tactical Air Control Party (TACP) -

  Security Clearance: Secret Clearance

  Duties Description:
  Engages enemy forces utilizing advanced technologies and weapon systems to direct airstrikes in close proximity of friendly forces. Controls and executes operational air and space power. Operates in austere combat environments independent of an established airbase or its perimeter defenses. Employed as part of a joint, interagency or coalition force to support Combatant Commander objectives. Primarily assigned to U.S. Army Installations. Member of Battlefield Airman grouping.

• Rank: Corporal

  Branch/Position: Marine Corps

  Period: September 2026

  Occupation: 1345 - Engineer Equipment Operator

  Duties Description:
  Engineer equipment operators operate gasoline or diesel engine powered, self-propelled, skid-mounted, and towed engineer construction equipment including accessories and allied equipment used in earthmoving, grading, excavation, logging, clearing, landing operations, and cableway and tramway operations.