From 1998 to 1999, Sasseville was the program manager and F-22 core pilot of the 422nd Test and Evaluation Squadron at Nellis AFB in Nevada. On January 1 of that same year, he was promoted to major and sent overseas to Kunsan Air Base in the Republic of Korea, where he served as assistant director of operations, 80th Fighter Squadron of the 8th Fighter Wing. He served as wing weapons chief until 1997. He earned a Master of Arts degree in aeronautical science technology from Embry Riddle Aeronautical at the University of Florida in 1996. In 1995, Sasseville was reassigned to Nevada, where he served as wing weapons chief of the 57th Operational Support Squadron, 57th at Nellis Air Force Base. In 1992, he went overseas again as flight commander of the 13th Fighter Squadron, and chief of standardizations and evaluations of the 35th Operations Group at Misawa Air Base in Japan. He then returned to the United States and was assigned as chief of squadron weapons for the 309th Fighter Squadron, 31st Tactical Fighter Wing at Homestead Air Force Base, Florida. He was promoted to captain on May 29, 1989. From 1987 to 1989, Sasseville served in his first overseas assignment as programmer of the 613th Fighter Squadron, 401st Tactical Fighter Wing, at Torrejon Air Base, Spain. Sasseville served in various operational units during his active duty. He was promoted to first lieutenant on May 29, 1987. From 1986 to 1987 he was assigned to the F-16 Replacement Training Unit at MacDill Air Force Base in Florida. Sasseville was assigned to the Undergraduate Pilot Training program at Columbus Air Force Base, Mississippi, from 1985 to 1986, where he earned his pilot wings. On May 29, 1985, he earned his Bachelor of Science degree in International Affairs and a second lieutenant's commission in the Air Force from the academy. After graduation from high school he was accepted to the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado. Sasseville was the oldest of three children born to Yita Frontera Lluch, a native of Yauco, Puerto Rico and Air Force Officer Albert "Al" Sasseville at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, in Ohio. He assumed his current assignment in August 2020. He also served as the Senior Defense Official/Defense Attache, Turkey, United States European Command, Ankara, Turkey. He was one of four pilots given the mission of finding United Airlines Flight 93 during the September 11 attacks and destroying it, even if it meant ramming the aircraft. On September 11, 2001, Sasseville was the acting operations group commander under the 113th Wing of the D.C. Sasseville previously served as commander of the 113th Wing, District of Columbia Air National Guard at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland and was the first Hispanic American to hold the position. He previously served as the commander of the Continental United States North American Aerospace Defense Command Region and concurrently as commander of the First Air Force (Air Forces Northern) from June 2019 to August 2020. ![]() ![]() Marc Henry Sasseville Frontera (born March 23, 1963) is a United States Air Force lieutenant general who currently serves as the 12th Vice Chief of the National Guard Bureau.
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