Air Force Vet to Revisit Combat Zone on Nov. 9

U.S. Air Force veteran William Castellano will discuss his journey from Galewood to Afghanistan and back during a special Veterans Day presentation at 7 p.m. on Nov. 9 at the Italian American Veterans Museum.

The supervisor of protective services for a global company and a suburban police officer, Castellano owns a training company that specializes in firearms and self-protection training and provides Active Shooter Response training to hospitals around the country.

Castellano’s background in security and law enforcement began as a member of the U.S. Air Force Security Forces, which tasked him with safeguarding nuclear weapons, codes and components.

Deployed to the Middle East multiple times in a force protection role, Castellano spent a year in Afghanistan as an international police mentor for the U.S. Department of State, serving in combat while embedded with the U.S. Army in the volatile Ghazni province.