Brad Mitzelfelt, a Marine Corps combat veteran of Operations Desert Storm and Desert Shield in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, respectively, receives one of three awards from Marine General Walter Boomer -- a First Place Distinguished Performance Award from the Marine Corps Combat Correspondents Association.  Then a Marine Sergeant, Mr. Mitzelfelt also received a Certificate of Commendation from General Boomer for his service in the campaign, and he previously received another First Place Combat Correspondents Award. Brad Mitzelfelt is the First District Supervisor for San Bernardino County, California. His district, the largest in the contiguous United States, includes the Mojave Desert cities of Adelanto, Apple Valley, Barstow, Hesperia, Needles, Twentynine Palms and Victorville. His priorities and accomplishments include improving public safety by helping expand the capacity of the county's jail system while increasing fire protection, child-predator controls and gang suppression and intervention. He recently helped create a sex-offender tracking team within the Sheriff's Department's Crimes Against Children Unit. He also recently allocated funding for a program to identify and deport illegal alien criminals in County Jails in the High Desert. Brad is currently helping establish an aviation technical training school at the Southern California Logistics Airport in Victorville. And he is assisting Victor Valley College in doubling its Registered Nurse training while helping establish nurse training at Barstow College. He is contributing millions of dollars toward youth and after-school programs to provide kids with constructive, fun and educational activities in a safe environment. Supervisor Mitzelfelt was appointed on January 10, 2007, to fill a vacancy on the Board, and was elected to a four-year term on June 3, 2008. Brad is Chairman of the High Desert Corridor Authority, a joint-powers agency with the County of Los Angeles that is currently planning a future highway between the Antelope and Victor Valleys. He is also Chairman of the Mountain-Desert Committee of SANBAG, the county's transportation commission, and he chairs the Victor Valley Economic Development Authority, a joint powers agency that oversees redevelopment around the former George Air Force Base. He is Vice-Chairman of the Quadstate Local Governments Authority. Supervisor Mitzelfelt serves on numerous additional governing boards and commissions, including the Public Lands Steering Committee of the National Association of Counties, the California Seismic Safety Commission, the Local Agency Formation Commission, the Mojave Desert Air Quality Management District, the Victor Valley Transit Authority and the Victor Valley Wastewater Reclamation Authority. He previously served on the Board of Directors for the San Bernardino County Fair. Brad is a veteran of 10 years of active and reserve military service. He served as a U.S. Marine in Operations Desert Storm and Desert Shield in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, respectively. He is a Life Member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Marine Corps Combat Correspondents Association. He earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business and Management from the University of Redlands, and a Certificate in Economic Development Management from the University of California Riverside Extension. Brad lives in Wrightwood with his wife, Megan.