This biography of a living person relies too much on references to primary sources. Please help by adding secondary or tertiary sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous or harmful. Find sources: "Thomas A. Betro" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (November 2008) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) | Thomas A. Betro (born in Walpole, Massachusetts[1]) is the former director of Naval Criminal Investigative Service. Betro earned a bachelor's degree in government from Colby College[1] and a master's degree from the Naval War College in Newport, R.I. At the Naval War College, he was awarded the James Forrestal Award for "Excellence in Strategy and Force Planning." He began his career with NCIS as a special agent in 1982.[1] In 2001 he left NCIS to work as a Deputy to the National Counterintelligence Executive. He was then made National Counterintelligence Executive. In January 2003 he returned to NCIS as an Assistant Director of Counterintelligence. In August 2003, he was promoted to Deputy Director for Operations, where he served until being made director of NCIS after former director David L. Brant retired in December 2005. He was appointed by Navy Secretary Donald C. Winter in 2005 and commissioned on January 8, 2006. He is the third civilian Director of NCIS. He is in the Senior Executive Service. With NCIS, Betro served as the Special Agent Afloat aboard the USS John F. Kennedy as well as the USS Enterprise. In 2007, Betro was awarded the Presidential Rank Award of Meritorious Executive.[2] In 2008, Betro was awarded the Roger W. Jones Award for Executive Leadership.[3] In Oct 2010, Betro was named vice president of 3i-MIND's Global Law Enforcement practice .[4] ## References[edit] 1. ^ a b c "Thomas Betro named Director of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service" (PDF). NCIS. 2006-01-10. Retrieved 2008-12-08.[dead link] 2. ^ "2007 Presidential Rank Awards". U.S. Office of Personnel Management. Retrieved 2008-12-08. 3. ^ "Past Recipients of the Roger W. Jones Award for Executive Leadership". American University. Retrieved 2013-10-26. 4. ^ "3i-MIND to Acquire iJET International". TMCNET. Retrieved 2011-04-02. ## External links[edit] * NCIS Biography This biography article about law enforcement in the United States is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. | * v * t * e *[v]: View this template *[t]: Discuss this template *[e]: Edit this template