LTC David Zgonc

LTC Miguel A. Zgonc is an instructor with the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the United States Military Academy.

He is an environmental science and engineering officer in the Medical Service Corps with operational and staff experience across the United States and its territories, as well as in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Republic of Korea. He has advised commanders at the brigade and division echelons on medical threats to the fighting strength, served as a project officer conducting water system sanitary surveys and led preventive medicine specialists in their missions to serve as public health inspectors and gather deployed service member long-term health risk assessment data. 

LTC Zgonc formerly served as an engineer officer with force protection emplacement and counter-improvised explosive device mission sets.

His graduate research focused on the industrial associations and transformations of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances.

Out of uniform, he and his wife, Christen, are raising four young children who nightly ask for - and are lulled to sleep by - LTC Zgonc’s environmental chemistry lectures.