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Safety Center civilian selected for prestigious leadership program

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  • By Keith Wright
  • Air Force Safety Center Public Affairs
KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. --  Mark Nunn, Air Force Risk Management Program manager and chief of the Air Force Safety Automated System Requirements Group at the Air Force Safety Center, was recently selected for the prestigious Air Force Civilian Strategic Leader Program and to attend Air War College in residence in July.

Nunn is one of only 12 civilians Air Force-wide selected for consideration for 70 critical leadership positions worldwide at the installation, headquarters, and joint levels via the CSLP.

CSLP is the Air Force senior corporate career broadening program designed to develop multi-skilled GS-14 and GS-15 leaders and enable them to navigate through complex environments, said David Van Steenburg, Air Force Personnel Center Force Renewal and Development Division chief, in an AFPC news release announcing this year's selections.

Nunn attributes his selection for the CLSP and AWC to his diverse military and civilian experience coupled with his civilian and military educational background. He was commissioned into the Air Force in 1986 through ROTC and transitioned through his 22-year active duty career as a strategic airlift pilot/instructor pilot with career broadening staff assignments at Headquarters Air Mobility Command and the Air Force Safety Center.

He cites his civilian and professional military education opportunities as essential aspects of his successful career, including completion of his master's degree in 1996 while an instructor pilot at Altus AFB, Okla., and Air War College by correspondence in 2007 while assigned to the AFSEC staff.

"Good advice from my dad was never close any doors that are opened for you," Nunn recalled. "The idea being that you should always be ready to take advantage of any opportunity presented to you."

Nunn has taken advantage of this philosophy via attendance at two other civilian leadership training courses: the Civilian Leadership Course and the Executive Writing Course. These courses were attended in 2009 and 2010 respectively and were key to his continued pursuit of greater civilian leadership opportunities like those presented through CSLP and AWC.

While acknowledging his diverse military and civilian career experiences in both operations and staff assignments, Nunn hopes to take advantage of more direct civilian leadership opportunities that his selection for CSLP and AWC in residence will provide him in the near future.

"I'm very humbled to have been selected for these opportunities and I look forward to the challenges ahead...it should be fun," Nunn said.