Brigadier General Lance Bunch (Ret.)

Brig. Gen. Lance R. Bunch is the Deputy Director, Transregional Threats Coordination Cell (T2C2), Joint Staff J5, Pentagon, Arlington, Va. The T2C2 supports the Chairman’s global integration efforts, and enables the Combatant Commander’s to effectively address transregional threats and their enabling networks by coordinating and synchronizing the Joint Force. T2C2 is also charged with coordinating and collaborating the Joint Force’s activities with interagency partners and integrating partner nation military efforts into a unified transregional strategic approach. General Bunch was commissioned upon graduation from the United States Air Force Academy in 1992. His flying assignments include operational tours in the F-15E, F-15C and B-52, and also instructing in the T-38A/C. General Bunch’s command tours include leading combat missions as Commander of the 335th Fighter Squadron at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, N.C., and the 80th Flying Training Wing at Sheppard AFB, Texas, which conducts the Euro-NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training Program, the world's only internationally manned and managed Undergraduate Pilot Training program. His staff assignments include tours at U.S. Pacific Command, the Joint Staff as a Chief of Staff of the Air Force Fellow, U.S. Central Command, United States Forces Afghanistan and the Office of the Secretary of Defense. General Bunch is a command pilot with more than 3,500 flying hours in the F-15C/E, B-52G/H, and T-38A/C. His operational experiences include Operations Northern Watch, Enduring Freedom, Noble Eagle and Resolute Support/Freedom Sentinal.