Bale Dalton

Bale Dalton is a retired Navy captain who grew up in Central Florida and graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy. He served 24 years in the Navy and Navy Reserve, 13 of them on active duty, with deployments to Iraq, Afghanistan, the Horn of Africa, and the Pacific. As a helicopter pilot he flew medical evacuation missions in Kuwait, delivered relief after Hurricane Katrina, supported special operations in Iraq and Africa, and directed combat air support in Afghanistan. After active duty he worked at the State Department and for former U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, then returned to active duty as commanding officer of the Navy's special operations support squadron. He later worked in the private aerospace sector and served as NASA chief of staff; his campaign says he managed 16,500 employees there.

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