Commander Scott Hielen

About

Scott Hielen, US Navy, was a national security affairs fellow for 2009–2010 at the Hoover Institution.

Hielen earned his bachelor’s in international affairs from the University of Nebraska and holds a master’s in information technology management from Carnegie Mellon University. Hielen came to Hoover from Headquarters, United States European Command in Stuttgart, Germany. He has deployed four times on aircraft carriers to the Western Pacific and Persian Gulf in support of Operations Southern Watch, Iraqi Freedom, and the Global War on Terrorism. His deployments have taken him over the skies of Iraq, coordinating on-scene Medivac and fire support for army, marine, and coalition convoys and ground forces. A career naval flight officer, he has accumulated more than 1700 flight hours and 469 carrier arrested landings in the E-2C Hawkeye; he has another 200 flight hours in more than ten different tactical and support aircraft. He is a graduate of both marine and naval aviation weapons and tactics instructor training courses and served as an instructor at the Naval Strike and Air Warfare Center, where he trained command and control aircrew for the navy's ten carrier air wings in support of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom. He has been an aviation department head and served as the executive officer to the director of Command, Control, Communications and Warfighting Integration at the US European Command.