Major William (Bill) Barna is currently serving as a G5 Intelligence Planner for the 10th Mountain Division and is a 2024 graduate of the Advanced Military Studies Program within the School of Advanced Military Studies. As an intelligence officer, he has served in the 201st Battlefield Surveillance Brigade, I Corps Headquarters,10th Mountain Division, and in the Mission Command Training Program. Bill served as a wheeled vehicle mechanic from 2004–2008, both in the 82nd Airborne Division and 1st Armored Division, before being awarded a Green to Gold scholarship. He is from Long Island, and he is an alumnus of the Isenberg School of Management at UMass Amherst, where he earned an MBA, and of Hofstra University, where he earned a BA in Political Science and commissioned as a Military Intelligence Officer through its ROTC program. His education also includes an MA from the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. He and his beautiful wife, Jami, have three wonderful children.