Mike Connors
Branch of Military: U.S. Army
Dates of Service: 1972-1994
Rank/Occupation: Armor Officer
Hometown: Miami, Florida
Mike Connors is a distinguished military graduate from the University of Miami, where he earned a bachelor's degree. He later earned a master's of business administration from the University of Alabama. As an Army officer, he is a graduate of the Armor Basic Course, Infantry Advanced Course, Comptroller Course, Inspector General Course and Command and General Staff College. Connors performed in numerous command and staff positions in armor and armored cavalry units to include the 2nd Armored Cavalry. He served as an exchange officer with the British Armored Corps in the Tactical School at Bovington Camp, United Kingdom. There he taught tactics to young officers and senior non-commissioned officers from British armor and cavalry regiments and served a training exercise evaluator. Connors was an investigations officer in the office of the Inspector General (IG) at Ft. Knox, Kentucky, where he conducted several sensitive investigations, one of which was used as the model to teach new IGs at the Department of the Army IG School. He managed the $1.7 billion weapons and tracked combat vehicle appropriation for the director of the Army budget at the Pentagon. Conners was assigned as the professor of military science at the University of Kentucky, where the school was recognized as the number one school in the brigade. Following his honorable military service, he was an estate planner for Merrill Lynch in Daytona Beach, followed by 17 years as a business teacher and basketball coach at Pedro Menendez High School in Saint Johns County. Connors is a board member with the Flagler County chapter of the Military Officers Association of America and a member of the Veterans in the Classroom instructional team.
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