Cmdr. Broomfield joined the Maritime Advance Warfighting School faculty following his tour as deputy chief of plans at U.S. European Command. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1992 and was designated a naval aviator in 1995. He has completed three operational deployments flying the F-18C and as CVN-65 air operations officer. During his exchange tour, he accumulated 467 fight hours in the Tornado GR-1 while assigned to the 2nd German Naval Airwing in Flensburg, Germany. He was subsequently assigned to the German Armed Forces Staff College in Hamburg, Germany. He completed his second tour as a military professor assigned to MAWS from 2014-17.