Mark Antal is a former Tier One Operator and special operations professional with over 30 years of experience in no-fail direct action missions impacting National Security, counterterrorism operations, hostage rescue, and critical and strategic infrastructure security.

Mark’s overseas combat experience began in 1989 during the invasion of Panama and comprises over a dozen deployments to Iraq, Afghanistan, and countless other special missions across five continents as a direct-action operational member of the 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta (Delta Force), where he served for over 12 years.

Since his retirement in 2015, Mark has provided risk and crisis management services, designing physical security architecture and operations, counterterrorism consulting and training, and providing extraction and exfil services to private clients, corporations, federal, state, and local governments in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and Caribbean region.

Mark is active in various veterans’ groups in the New York City region and serves as inaugural Ambassador for the Special Forces Charitable Trust.



Christine Quinn Antal helped formalize a group of like-minded Tier One veterans into Task Force Antal and currently serves as the organization´s Legal Counsel and Director of Special Projects.

Christine most recently served as a National Security Legal Advisor at U.S. Army Europe (2015-2021), where her portfolio focused on international law and operational, legal planning on sensitive and complex national security plans, directly advising the 3-star commander. Christine served key roles on U.S. Army Europe’s Crisis Action Teams for a Non-Combatant Evacuation Operation and the Global Pandemic.

In addition, Christine served as the Army’s primary legal advisor on Ukraine, Georgia, security assistance and cooperation matters, and primary legal advisor to the Strategic Plans Directorate at the Headquarters. Before her time in Europe, Christine spent a decade in various assignments at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

Christine began her career working in Counterterrorism and conflict-ridden regions in Northern Ireland in the 1990s. On her return to the U.S. she spent 20 months at a Washington D.C.-based immigration law firm specializing in Afghan asylum cases before returning to her hometown of New York City in August 2001 to begin her legal studies. Christine simultaneously attended law school and worked at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), where she served as the Military Fellows Program Manager and Research Associate in National Security Policy. In 2007, Christine was commissioned into the U.S. Army as a Judge Advocate and transitioned to a civilian legal advisor role for the Army in 2010.

Christine holds a Bachelor’s of Art (B.A.) in Art History from Bates College, Lewiston Maine, a Post-graduate Diploma (PgDip.) in Peace & Conflict Studies, with a concentration in Terrorism Studies from the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, and a Juris Doctorate (J.D.), from Fordham University School of Law, New York. Christine is a licensed attorney and holds a current TS/SCI clearance.​

Christine is a long-time Special Operations Army wife and mother of three girls. Through years of relentless deployments and training cycles, the catastrophic loss of friends, combat injuries, and managing family life, Christine also served in key leadership roles for their Special Mission Unit family support group and as a Command representative. Christine now serves on the Board of Directors of the Special Forces Charitable Trust, where she focuses her fierce advocacy on raising money for active-duty Special Operations families and Soldiers and our Quiet Professional retirees and their family caregivers.