Joe Buccino is a professional communications director with experience in international public relations and messaging plans. His responsibilities as the United States Secretary of Defense Spokesperson included maintaining relations with members of the Pentagon Press and overseeing crisis communications. He led the US Department of Defense's approach to communicating plans for the 1066 Space Force report. He has served as the communications director for the XVIII Airborne Corps and United States Central Command. Joe Buccino is also an award-winning speechwriter. He has written many well-known military speeches and coached junior and senior military officers in speech writing.

Joe Buccino graduated magna cum laude from Georgetown University with a master of arts in public relations and corporate communications. He is a distinguished honor graduate of the Army War College. As an English undergraduate at the State University of New York, Albany, he was commissioned into the US Army as a 2nd Lieutenant.

He is a member of the Association of the United States Army, 82nd Airborne Division Association, and Veterans of Foreign Wars. A few of his interests include reading and writing fiction.

Joe Buccino