Colonel Jon Darren Duke is a career U.S. Marine Corps intelligence and special operations officer who currently serves as Deputy Director of Operations for the Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps at Headquarters Marine Corps in Washington, D.C. Over his career, he has held a wide range of operational and staff roles across Marine Corps and joint commands, including deployments in Africa, the Middle East, and the Indo-Pacific in support of intelligence and special operations missions. He has commanded at multiple levels within Marine Special Operations Command, including Marine Raider battalions and forward-deployed special operations task forces. A graduate of the United States Naval Academy, Naval Postgraduate School, and the Defense Language Institute, Duke also served as a Marine Corps attaché in Israel and as a National Intelligence Fellow with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.