Operations Command, Peterson Space Force Base, Colorado. She commands the Electromagnetic Warfare Delta with personnel deployed worldwide. To young

professionals, the colonel advises to take, and make, opportunities to further careers and to learn to do your job—smartly. That means to question whether how

you’re doing your job makes the most sense. Can it be done better? Differently to be more efficient? To more seasoned professionals, she advises that good

ideas can come from everywhere, including the most junior of staffers, and that meetings need objectives. Wise. For all, Col. Petrucci likens the work-life balance to a teeter totter. It won’t always been perfectly balanced and the secret is learning to make the most of the ups and downs.