Lt. Col
Alfred J. Fonzi II, US Army (Ret)
Al Fonzi is a retired Army Lt Colonel with over 36 years of military
service, both enlisted and commissioned, upon his retirement in January,
2006. Since his retirement, he has been employed as a consultant for SRI International,
an affiliate of Stanford
University and is a
specialist in counterterrorism, disaster management and other issues regarding
Homeland Security.
A career intelligence officer, he served multiple combat tours of duty in
Vietnam, and various assignments throughout the Cold War, to include duty with
Army Special Forces. He served in Europe, Korea,
and the Middle East, to include service in Bosnia
as the Chief of Counterintelligence and HUMINT for the National Intelligence
Cell in Sarajevo.
During the 1990's, he served as a counternarcotics intelligence officer while
assigned to the DEA and FBI in South Central Los Angeles and along the Mexican
boarder. His last combat tour was in Iraq
in 2004 during which time his oldest son was also deployed to Iraq as a
Corpsman with the First Marine Division.
Al is a graduate of Cuesta College and Cal-Poly, holding multiple earned
degrees, to include a Master's Degree in International relations from the University of Southern California. He is a Vice
President of the San Luis Obispo County Lincoln Club, and alternate member of
the SLO County Republican Central Committee and is a regular conservative
columnist for the Atascadero News. He has been married to former Mayor
and current City Councilwoman of Atascadero, Roberta Fonzi, for 38 years.
They have four children and live in one of the oldest Colony Homes in Atascadero.
Al's talk was centered on his views of the present state of politics from a
conservative point. His views were characterized by our humble Secretary
were "very negative opinion of the other party, and very provocative
stuff." Our illustrious President didn't seem to think the views
were offensive, but were controversial.
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