Colonel Viesturs Masulis

Chief Latvian Air Force

His military career started with studies in the National Defense Academy of Latvia in 1995. After graduation he was posted to the Latvian Air Force Radio Engineering Battalion as Surveillance Radars Main specialist in 1999.

Since year 2000, he was posted to the Air Defense Battalion as Military Planning Officer. In August 2007 Colonel Masulis was assignment to the NATO HQ as a Staff Officer. After serving at the NATO headquarters, he continued his service at the Latvian Air Force HQ as Chief of Operational and Planning department in 2010. In 2013 he was assigned as Commander of Latvian Air Force Air Surveillance Squadron. Following his promotion to Chief of Staff of the Latvian Air Force HQ in 2019, he was appointed Commander of the Latvian Air Force in January 2020.

Colonel Viesturs Masulis earned a Bachelor's degree in Pedagogy at the National Defence Academy of Latvia. His professional education includes completion of the Air Command and Staff College Resident Program at US Air University, Maxwell AFB, Alabama in 2013, and the Higher Command Studies Course at the Baltic Defence College, Estonia in 2022.