Special Agent Alexander Perkins worked his way through various responsibilities and commands in his 19-year Air Force career.  After enlisting at 18, he worked his way up to command AFOSI Detachment 805 at F.E Warren Air Force Base, WY, responsible for identifying, neutralizing, and exploiting criminal and counterintelligence threats to the 90th Missile Wing. Along the way, he obtained two associate degrees, a bachelor’s degree, a master’s degree, and an officer’s commission. He served around the world with assignments in the U.S., Iraq, South Korea, Africa, and Germany. He has excelled at conducting criminal investigations, performing inspection duties for AFOSI’s Pacific Command, and overseeing AFOSI’s counterintelligence program for Europe and Africa, which encompassed 30 geographically separated units 

Special Agent Perkins continually exceeds the standard and has achieved many extraordinary accomplishments during his career. He established OSI Det 226’s first-ever Internet Crimes Against Children program and identified 14 members using the internet to exploit children. While deployed to Iraq, he used his proactive law enforcement mindset to obtain Iraqi arrest warrants resulting in the arrest of four high-value individuals, reducing indirect fire on the installation by 400 percent and improvised explosive detonations in the surrounding area by 1,000 percent. Additionally, he was an instructor at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center.   

Throughout his career, Special Agent Perkins’ contributions earned him The Bronze Star Medal, a handful of wing-level quarterly and yearly awards, and the 2009 DoD CI Team of the Year Award. 

“Having a career in law enforcement is a dream come true because every day I get to make a difference in people’s lives.”