Marc H. Sasseville

Brigadier General Marc H. Sasseville , is a United States Air Force officer who is the first Hispanic to be named Commander of the 113th Wing, District of Columbia Air National Guard at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland. On September 11, 2001, Sasseville was the acting operations group commander under the 113th Wing of the DC Air National Guard. He was one of four pilots given the mission of finding United Flight 93 and destroying it, even if it meant ramming the plane. The tactic would be similar to the suicide military tactics known as Sonderkommando Elbe missions used by the military aviators from Nazi Germany in World War II. He is currently serving as the Senior Defense OfficialDefense Attache, Turkey, United States European Command, Ankara, Turkey.

Sasseville was the oldest of three children born to Air Force Officer Albert Al Sasseville and Yita Frontera Lluch, a native of Yauco, Puerto Rico at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, in Ohio. After graduating from high school he was accepted to the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado. In May 29, 1985, he earned his B.S. degree in International Affairs and a Second Lieutenants commission in the Air Force from the academy.

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