Joseph Thomas Guastella Jr. (born 1965) is a retired lieutenant general in the United States Air Force who served as the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations of the United States Air Force.

[1] He was commissioned upon his graduation from the United States Air Force Academy in 1987.

He is a command pilot with more than 4,000 flight hours in the F-16 Fighting Falcon and A-10 Thunderbolt II.

He further instructed at the United States Air Force Fighter Weapons School.

Most recently he served as the Director of Integrated Air, Space, Cyberspace and Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Operations at Headquarters Air Force Space Command, Peterson AFB, Colorado.