Sasseville (born March 23, 1963), is a United States Air Force officer who is the first Hispanic to be named Commander of the 113th Wing, District of Columbia Air National Guard at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland.
On September 11, 2001, Sasseville was the acting operations group commander under the 113th Wing of the DC Air National Guard.
He was one of four pilots given the mission of finding United Flight 93 and destroying it, even if it meant ramming the plane.
The tactic would be similar to the suicide military tactics known as Sonderkommando Elbe missions used by the military aviators from Nazi Germany in World War II.
He served as the Senior Defense Official/Defense Attache, Turkey, United States European Command, Ankara, Turkey.