"And me, him and Chief Bass would spend many hours contemplating about the challenges of the enlisted force and what we can do to make a difference for them." "Chief Towberman, we've known each other for years, and that relationship started when I was initially in the Pentagon doing enlisted force development," Bentivegna said. JoAnne Bass, the current top enlisted leader of the Air Force, had a neighboring cubicle to Bentivegna, and Towberman would often swing by. Prior to that role, Bentivegna was the senior enlisted leader for Space Operations Command at Peterson Space Force Base in Colorado.īentivegna credits many of the stops in his career, ranging from being stationed as a top enlisted leader with various commands to working with the National Reconnaissance Office, as being instrumental in his development as a leader and a Guardian.īut in particular, he points to his job in 2017, when he worked as the chief of enlisted force development for the Air Force, as being one crucial moment. He currently serves as the senior enlisted adviser to the chief operations officer and is the enlisted space operations career field manager for space systems operators from the Air Force's headquarters in Washington, D.C. "I was going to do four years and get out."īentivegna transferred from the Air Force into the Space Force in September 2020. I didn't do extremely well in high school. The way he saw it, being a veteran would look good on a resume and could help him get a job as a fireman or a police officer, like some of his friends back home. He was just two months married, and boot camp in Texas was far away from his native New Jersey.
When he was getting ready to ship off to basic military training in the late summer of 1994, he thought his career as a young airman would last four to six years max. I've always been able to count on him to point out blind spots and to hold me accountable."īentivegna said that he did not begin his military service expecting to make a career out of it. "He's very comfortable kind of speaking truth to whomever it is, including me, and he's always been good. "I think he's a really good testament to the Space Force value of courage," Towberman said. One of the qualities that struck him was Bentivegna’s ability to hold his fellow service members accountable. Towberman praised Saltzman's pick in an interview with on Saturday, saying he's run into Bentivegna several times throughout his career. Bentivegna will be in charge of helping shape service policy and customs that are tied to the health, morale and mission of all enlisted Guardians. Saltzman informed Bentivegna on Friday that he had been selected to replace current Chief Master Sergeant of the Space Force Roger Towberman in the coming months.
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