Kristine E. Blackwell
Colonel Kristine E. Blackwell was assigned
as the Commander, US Air Force Special Investigations Academy
(USAFSIA), in July 2010. She directs training for the Air
Force Office of Special Investigations at four separate
locations. The main academy is located on the campus of the
Federal Law Enforcement Training Center and trains over 1,000 students
annually in basic and advanced criminal and counterintelligence
investigations, protective service operations, polygraph, and technical
investigative services in support of AFOSI’s worldwide criminal and
counterintelligence investigations missions. Prior to her current
assignment, Colonel Blackwell was Deputy Commander of the AFOSI
4th Field Investigations Region, Randolph Air Force Base,
TX. Other previous assignments include Commander, AFOSI
Detachment 105, Robins Air Force Base, GA, and Air Force Criminal
Investigations Program Manager, Office of the Air Force Inspector
General, the Pentagon. Colonel Blackwell has also served outside
her specialty in positions as diverse as Military Assistant to the
Under Secretary of the Air Force and Air Force Fellow, Congressional
Research Service, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Colonel Blackwell entered the Air Force in 1988 as a distinguished graduate of the Reserve Officer Training Corps program. She received law enforcement credentials in 1989 and began her career as a criminal investigator at Mather Air Force Base, Sacramento, CA. Since then, she has served in numerous field and staff positions and deployed in support of AFOSI’s wartime mission. Her most recent deployed assignment was as Deputy Director of the joint Strategic Counterintelligence Directorate, Baghdad, Iraq.
Colonel Blackwell hails from coastal Massachusetts. She graduated in 1988 with a Bachelor’s of Art degree from Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, and holds Master’s degrees in Criminal Justice and Military Science.
