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Bellavia1David Bellavia

David is a former army staff sergeant who served in the First Infantry Division (Task Force 2-2) for six years. He is the recipient of the both Silver and Bronze Stars for valor, and has also been nominated for both the Distinguished Service Cross and the Medal of Honor for his actions in a fierce urban hand-to-hand fight in the battle of Fallujah, in November 2004. David is the author of the much acclaimed war memoir House to House: An Epic Memoir of War, about door-to-door close combat in Iraq.

 


knoxKnox Nunnally

Knox is a former Marine Infantry Captain who served three consecutive deployments to Iraq with the Second Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion out of Camp Lejeune, N.C. He holds a Bronze Star for valor and a Purple Heart. Knox is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis and lives in Austin, Texas.

 

 

 

markMark Seavey

Mark is a former Army National Guard Sergeant. Mark served in Afghanistan for over a year as an infantry squad leader in the Third Battalion, 116 Infantry, based in Woodstock, Virginia. He works for a Washington-based veterans' organization and lives in Ohio. He is a graduate of The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina.

 

 


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Owen West

Owen served as a Marine Infantry officer for six years, and served twice in Iraq while on leave from his job as a commodities trader for Goldman, Sachs. He most recently (2006-2007) served as an advisor to an Iraqi infantry battalion.  Owen is graduate of Harvard College and Stanford Business School, is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.


 

joeJoe Dan Worley

Former Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Joe Dan "Doc" Worley served in Iraq as a US Navy Corpsman. He was an infantry platoon medic in Second Battalion, First Marines in Fallujah in 2004. In September 2004, Joe Dan's platoon was targeted in a coordinated ambush. As he was running to the aid of two comrades mortally wounded by an IED, Joe Dan was hit by a secondary IED that blew off his leg, and he was shot five times in the attack. Miraculously, he survived and he was able to tie his own tourniquet and begin shouting instructs to aid in the treatment the other wounded Marines. After 18 months of rehabilitation at Bethesda and Walter Reed, he now lives in Georgia with his family. He holds a Bronze Star for valor and a Purple Heart. 


wadeWade Zirkle

Wade is a former Marine Lieutenant who served two deployments to Iraq, first with Second Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion (Camp Lejeune, N.C.) in 2003 and then with the Camp Pendleton, California-based infantry unit Second Battalion, First Marines (2/1) in 2004. Wade fought in the invasion of Iraq and the First Battle for Fallujah and is a recipient of The Purple Heart. Wade has also traveled to both Iraq and Afghanistan as a civillian combat correspondent embedded with Iraqi and Afghan troops. Wade is a graduate of the University of South Carolina and lives in Edinburg, Virginia, where he a managing partner at StrongPoint Capital LLC.  Wade also currently serves as the interim Executive Director of Vets for Freedom.

 

 

 
 


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