Lieutenant General Bradley A. Heithold is a retired United States Air Force officer who served as Commander, Air Force Special Operations Command.

[2] As AFISRA Commander, Heithold's duties included providing multi-source ISR products, applications, capabilities and resources, as well as information operations forces and expertise.

[1] 1981 Bachelor's degree in physics, University of Arkansas, AR 1986 Squadron Officer School, Maxwell AFB, AL. 1991 Master of Public Administration degree, Troy State University, AL. 1995 Air Command and Staff College, Maxwell AFB, AL. 1998 National Defense Fellow, Florida International University, Miami, FL 1999 Armed Forces Staff College, Norfolk, Va. Heithold entered the United States Air Force in 1974 and spent three years at Holloman AFB, New Mexico as an F-4D avionics technician.

From there, he was commissioned in 1981 as a distinguished graduate of the ROTC program at the University of Arkansas.

He was at Air Force Special Operations Command Headquarters, Hurlburt Field, Florida, where he was Director of Plans, Programs, Requirements and Assessments.