About the Author
During nine years of active duty, Steven K. O’Hern served as a special investigations and counterintelligence officer in the U.S. Air Force. He commanded detachments of the Air Force Office of Special Investigations at four U.S. and overseas locations. In his last active duty assignment at Tinker Air Force Base near Oklahoma City, OK, O’Hern commanded a unit that initiated an undercover operation with the FBI that ran for three years and resulted in convictions of civilian contractors selling defective counterfeit aircraft parts that were being used on combat aircraft.
O’Hern separated from active duty and transferred to the Air Force Reserve. After graduating cum laude from Washburn Law School in 1988, he began a career as a litigation attorney for a large Kansas City law firm. As a reserve AFOSI officer, Major O’Hern provided counterintelligence services for a special unit that served the Air Force’s “black ops” special access programs. In 2005, O’Hern deployed to Iraq as the Director of the Strategic Counterintelligence Directorate (SCID), a unique intelligence unit that included personnel from the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps. The SCID ran intelligence operations directed against Sunni insurgents, Shiite militiamen, criminal gangs, and Iranian intelligence operatives.
Colonel O’Hern retired from the Air Force Reserve in 2006. He works as an attorney for a large reinsurance company in Overland Park, Kansas. He can be reached at IntelWars@gmail.com.
