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 Pete Hegseth, VFF
Executive Director
Pete Hegseth served in Iraq with the 3rd Brigade of the 101st
Airborne Division for their deployment to Iraq from 2005-2006. Pete
served as an infantry Platoon Leader in Baghdad during the
nationwide elections in October and December 2005, and as a
Civil-Military Operations officer in Samarra. He also served in
Guantanamo Bay for a year on a security mission with his National
Guard unit and currently serves in the Army National Guard as a
Captain. Pete holds the Bronze Star for his time in Iraq, and has
made two trips back (February & August 2008) to the report on
the situation there. Pete graduated from Princeton University in
2003 and is currently pursuing a masters
degree at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of
Government.
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Flagg Youngblood, VFF-PAC Director
Flagg, a former Army Captain, served with First Battalion,
144th Field Artillery, California Army National Guard,
in support of Operation Enduring Freedom from 2003-2004, commanding
a security task force for Travis Air Force Base and Moffett Field
in northern California. Previously, he served with the
3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment from
1998-2000. Originally from Nashville, Tennessee, Flagg is a
1997 graduate of Yale and the University of Connecticut's
R.O.T.C. Before joining VFF-PAC, Flagg served as Director of
Military Outreach for Young America's Foundation.
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Vets for Freedom Founders
 Knox
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.
 Mark Seavey
Mark Seavey 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 veterans' organization in Washington and lives in
Virginia. He is a graduate of The Citadel, the Military College of
South Carolina.
 Joe 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 wife and daughter. He holds
a Bronze Star for valor and a Purple Heart.
 Wade Zirkle
Wade Zirkle is a former Marine Lieutenant who served two
deployments to Iraq, first with Second Light Armored Reconnaissance
Battalion (Camp Lejeune, N.C.) and most recently 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.
In 2006 he returned to Iraq for the third time -this time as a
civilian reporter- where he was embedded with the Iraq Army in
Ramadi. Wade is a graduate of the University of South Carolina and
is from Shenandoah County, Virginia.
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