Our thirty-seventh recipient, Colonel (Ret) Scott M. Koltick completed the AMP at Harvard Business School in May 2022.  Scott is a retired Marine aviator who has started a commercial real estate investment and development company in Raleigh, NC.  He began his career as an enlisted Marine serving in the 4th Marine Division but most recently served as the Assistant Wing Commander, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing, Okinawa, Japan.  He was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in 1996 through the Platoon Leaders Class program, earned his wings as a Naval Aviator in 1999, and was selected to fly the KC-130 Hercules.  Scott has extensive operational and tactical aviation experience, including operational deployments to Europe and Africa and combat deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.  “Bobcat” is a KC-130J pilot with more than 3,800 hours of military flight time in various aircraft, including 750 hours in combat operations, with experience in the C-130E and KC-130F/R/T/J model aircraft.  His most recent tour was as the Commanding Officer of Marine Aircraft Group 11, Miramar, CA.  His other command tours include Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron 252, Cherry Point, NC, and a KC-130 detachment in Kandahar, Afghanistan.  Other assignments include Director of Operations and Deputy Commander for U.S. Marine Corps Forces, Korea; Aircrew Programs Manager, Manpower and Support section, Headquarters Marine Corps Aviation; Land Plans Staff Officer, NATO Land Component Command, Madrid, Spain; and Senior Watch Officer of CJTF-7 (later Multinational Forces Command) in Baghdad, Iraq.  Scott graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a BS in Mechanical Engineering and earned his Masters of International Public Policy from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

Scott and his wife, Charlotte, have four children.