Commander (ret.)

Jay 

Ballard 

Postgraduate Instructor, Canadian Forces College

Commander (ret.) Jay Ballard is a military consultant, postgraduate instructor with the Canadian Forces College, writer and training specialist who lives with his family in Queensville, Ontario. He retired from the US Navy as a Commander with more than 3,800 hours in fighters and more than 500 arrested landings on aircraft carriers. He has flown the FA-18A/B/C, F-16N, F-5E/F and TA-4J. He made five deployments that included combat operations over Iraq, stability flights off Somali, and disaster relief operations in Sumatra. His qualifications included: Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor, Carrier Air Wing THREE Strike Leader and USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN Air Boss.

Information provided is current as of June 2016

From the Author

What’s Past is Prologue

Why the Golden Age of Rapid Air Superiority is at an End
By Cdr 
Jay 
Ballard 
Social media explodes with overnight reports of ‘Little Green Men’ Planners throughout NATO immediately recognize Russia is severing Western access to the Baltic States by activating an anti-access / area denial (A2/AD) environment over the [...]

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