Brigadier General Edi Turco

BGen Edi TURCO serves as Chief of Staff of the Air Education Training Command / 3rd Air Region, and Head of the International Flight Training School (IFTS) Program Office.

BGen TURCO joined the Italian Air Force in 1991 and he graduated at the Air Force Academy in 1995. He is a Master Navigator, Weapon Instructor, with more than 2200 flying hours (2000 of which on Tornado). He has served different combat tours.

BGen Turco spent most of his operational career assigned to the 154th Squadron, 6th Wing in Ghedi (Brescia - Italy) flying, as a WSO, on Tornado aircraft (reconnaissance, conventional and dual role fighter-bomber).

Between 2009 and 2012, BGen Turco was the Air System Requirements Working Group Lead and F-35 Future Requirements Deputy Lead at the JSF Program Office, in Arlington, Virginia (USA).

He, then, was Base/Wing Director of Operations at 6th Wing Ghedi (Italy), after his appointment at the ItAF HQ as Director of F-35 Air Force Integration Office, he commanded the 2nd Wing at Rivolto Air Force Base (Italy) and subsequently he was the Deputy Commander Air Staff Situational Room at the Air Operational Forces Command in Rome (Italy).

Prior to his current assignment, BGen TURCO was the Air Attaché at the Embassy of Italy in Washington DC (USA), accredited both to the United States Department of the Air Force and Mexico.

BGen TURCO is a graduate of the “Joint and Combined Forces Staff College" in Rome.