Austin Smith is a Military Motion Media student at Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications.

He has been in the Air Force for four years and plans on being a lifer.  He has spent three years at the public affairs office at Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana.

He owns two beagles and is an avid Dallas Cowboys fan.

He was born in Amarillo, Texas and has spent most of his life in Dallas.