Senty was commissioned an officer in the Air Force in 1975. He was then assigned to the
94th Tactical Airlift Wing and later attended the
Squadron Officer School. In 1979, he became a wing intelligence officer at
Tactical Air Command. Also that year, he began working with the
Central Intelligence Agency. In 1982, he attended the
Air Command and Staff College. In 1983, Senty was assigned to the
Defense Intelligence Agency. He was then stationed at the
National Reconnaissance Office and later attended the
Air War College. Senty also deployed to serve in the
Gulf War. In 1993, he became an intelligence director of the Office of the
United States Secretary of Defense at
The Pentagon. He attended the
Foreign Service Institute in 1995. Senty was stationed at
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base from 1996 until 1998, when he became a mobilization assistant to the Commander of the
Air Intelligence Agency. In 2001, he returned to The Pentagon in the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Air and Space Operations. He would also serve in the
War in Afghanistan (2001–present) and the
Iraq War. In 2008, he served as a mobilization assistant to the Director of the
National Security Agency and the Chief of the
Central Security Service. Later that year, he became a mobilization assistant to the Commander of
Air Force Cyber Command (Provisional). The following year, he was briefly a mobilization assistant to the Commander of the
Twenty-Fourth Air Force before becoming Chief of Staff of
United States Cyber Command. Senty retired in 2011. ==Awards and decorations==