Victor Vescovo

Navy.

And they said, yeah, we've noticed you have some interesting background.

You have a couple of languages.

I speak French and German a little bit.

And you've done this stuff at MIT with military simulations and math.

You've lived in the Middle East.

Yeah, we have a special program for guys like you.

And so they offered me a direct commission into naval intelligence as an ensign in my first year of business school in 1993.

How did you like that?

The security review took over a year, and eventually they let me in.

But it was fascinating.

It was perfectly suited to my personality, intelligence analysis.

I was originally trained as a targeting officer because I knew enough about business.

I'm also a pilot since I was 18.

So I could easily interface with the pilot community on how things look from the air, how flight operations work.

But I also knew if you need to take out an oil refinery where the critical nodes probably are.

what the dangers are, those types of things.

And so for about 10 years, I was a targeting officer.

I was involved in the Kosovo conflict.

I was on the targeting staff in Naples, Italy, when we were bombing Serbia, directly involved in those operations and battle damage assessment.