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David 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.
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 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.

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.
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 family. He holds a Bronze
Star for valor and a Purple Heart.
Wade 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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