- Colin Powell
General Colin Luther Powell, United States Army (Ret.) (born April 5, 1937) is a former American military leader and statesman. He became the first African-American to be confirmed as United States Secretary of State. As the 65th United States Secretary of State (2001-05) under President George W. Bush, Powell became the highest ranking African American government official in the history of the United States.
- Charles Graner
Charles A. Graner, Jr., (born 1968) is a former U.S. Army reservist and one of several soldiers charged by the Army in connection with the 2003-2004 Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal during the invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq. Graner, with other soldiers, is accused of allowing and inflicting sexual, physical, and psychological abuse of Iraqi prisoners of war in Abu Ghraib, a notorious prison in Baghdad. Graner has been accused of being a torturer, sadist, …
- John Allen Muhammad
John Allen Muhammad (b. December 31, 1960) is an American serial killer. With his younger partner Lee Boyd Malvo, he carried out the 2002 Beltway sniper attacks, killing 10 people. This was an apparent attempt to extort $10 million. Muhammad and Malvo were arrested in connection with the attacks on October 24, 2002, following tips from alert citizens. His trial for one of the murders (the murder of Dean Harold Meyers in Prince William County, …
- James Mattis
James N. Mattis is a United States Marine Corps Lieutenant General currently serving as the Commanding General, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, and Commander, United States Marine Forces Central Command. Mattis attended Central Washington University and was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in 1972. As a Lieutenant, he served as a rifle and weapons platoon commander in the 3rd Marine Division.
- Norman Schwarzkopf Jr.
General H. Norman Schwarzkopf KCB, also known as "Stormin' Norman" (b. August 22, 1934) is a retired United States Army General who, while he served as Commander-in-Chief (now known as "Combatant Commander") of U.S. Central Command, was commander of the Coalition Forces in the Gulf War of 1991. Schwarzkopf was born in Trenton, New Jersey (but resided in Lawrenceville, New Jersey) to Herbert Norman Schwarzkopf, …
- Anthony Swofford
Anthony Swofford, born 12 August 1970 in Fairfield, California, is a United States Marine and author of the book "Jarhead", published in 2003. He was a lance corporal while serving as a sniper with the STA (Surveillance and Target Acquisition) Platoon of 2nd Battalion 7th Marines. His book is based on his accounts of various situations encountered in the first Gulf War. This memoir was made into a movie in 2005.
- Barry McCaffrey
Barry Richard McCaffrey (b. November 17 1942, Taunton, Massachusetts) is a retired United States Army General. He currently serves as an Adjunct Professor at the United States Military Academy, where he had been the Bradley Professor of International Security Studies from 2001 to 2005. He is also a NBC and MSNBC military analyst as well as a consultant for BR McCaffrey Associates. In addition to serving as a professor at the USMA, …
- Timothy McVeigh
Timothy James McVeigh (April 23, 1968 - June 11, 2001), commonly referred to as the Oklahoma City bomber, was convicted of eleven federal offenses and ultimately executed as a result of his role on the April 19, 1995, Oklahoma City bombing. The bombing, which claimed 168 lives, was the deadliest act of terrorism in American history until the September 11, 2001 attacks and remains the deadliest incident of domestic terrorism in the United States.
- Scott Speicher
Michael Scott Speicher was a U.S. Navy pilot whose F/A-18 Hornet fighter was reportedly shot down by an air-to-air missile fired from an Iraqi MiG-25 the first night of Operation Desert Storm on January 17, 1991; since then there has been no evidence of his death, nor any evidence that he is still alive. There is much controversy over the possibility that he might have survived and been taken prisoner by the Iraqis.
- John Michael McConnell
Vice Admiral John Michael "Mike" McConnell, USN Ret., (born July 26, 1943) has served as the United States Director of National Intelligence since 20 February 2007. He also served as Director of the National Security Agency from 1992 to 1996, and as an admiral in the United States Navy.
- Mark Valley
Mark Thomas Valley (born December 24, 1964) is an American actor.
- Charlie Ross
Charlie Ross is an American politician and attorney who lives in Brandon, Mississippi. He currently serves as Senator from District 20 in the Mississippi Senate. District 20 is comprised of parts of Madison and Rankin Counties. In the Senate, Charlie serves as Chairman of the Judiciary A Committee, which handles a wide variety of legislative issues including civil justice matters. He also serves on the Constitution, Elections, Environmental Protection, …
- Brian Gerard James
Brian Gerard (B.G.) James (born May 20 1969) is an American professional wrestler, best known for his appearances with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) as "The Road Dogg" Jesse James; a former member of D-Generation X, and the tag team partner of Billy Gunn, with whom he comprised the New Age Outlaws and The James Gang (now known as the Voodoo Kin Mafia). He is currently working for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA).
- Ricardo Sanchez
Lieutenant General Ricardo S. Sánchez was a United States Army general who served as the commander of coalition forces in Iraq from June 2003 to June 2004. He was the highest-ranking Hispanic in the United States Army when he retired on 1 November 2006. At the time of his retirement, Lieutenant General Sanchez called his career a casualty of the Abu Ghraib scandal.
- Sean Baker
Sean Baker, a native of Lawrenceburg, Kentucky, is a United States Air Force veteran and former member of the Kentucky National Guard, who served during the first Gulf War, and as a member of the 438th Military Police at Guantanamo Bay. In January 2003, Baker was ordered by an officer at Guantanamo to pretend to be a prisoner in a training drill. As per instruction, Baker wore an orange prison jumpsuit over his uniform and crawled under a bunk in a cell, …
- George Alexander
Staff Sergeant George T. Alexander Jr. (August 1971 - October 22, 2005) was the 2,000th American soldier killed in combat in Iraq since the beginning of the 2003 Invasion of Iraq, according to the Associated Press. Alexander, an African-American, died October 22, 2005 at the Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas after being treated for injuries sustained five days earlier, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his M2 Bradley in the city of Samarra.
- Jeffrey Ashby
Jeffrey Shears "Bones" Ashby (born June 16, 1954) is a former American naval aviator and astronaut, a veteran of three space shuttle missions. He is a retired Captain in the U.S. Navy Jeff Ashby grew up in Evergreen, Colorado, southwest of Denver, and graduated from Evergreen High School in 1972. He attended the University of Idaho, earning a B.S. in mechanical engineering in 1976.
- Bryan Suits
Bryan Suits is a conservative talk radio host on 570 KVI in Seattle, Washington. He is also a member of the Washington Army National Guard 1st Battalion 161 Infantry. He has served in Operation Desert Storm, Bosnia, and the Iraq war. While in Iraq he occasionally called into the Kirby Wilbur Show and reported on his experiences. He was also a contributor to the Iraq election log on the BBC news website.
- Jeff Latas
Jeff Latas (born January 10, 1958) was a 2006 Democratic candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in Arizona Congressional District 8. Latas worked as a construction carpenter and attended Pima Community College. He was then accepted into the Air Force ROTC program and Aerospace Engineering program at the University of Arizona, and upon graduation, he was commissioned into the United States Air Force. He flew the F-111D and served as a flight instructor in T-38s.
- Paul F. McHale Jr.
Paul F. McHale, Jr. (born July 26, 1950 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) is the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense. From 1993 to 1999, he represented the 15th district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives. McHale was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, where he graduated from Bethlehem's Liberty High School. He received a B.A. from Lehigh University in 1972 and a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center in 1977.
- Ilario Pantano
Ilario Pantano (born 1971 in New York City) is a former United States Marine Corps second lieutenant who was accused of premeditated murder in the killing of two Iraqi civilians on April 15, 2004. A military tribunal found that "The government was unable to produce credible evidence or testimony that the killings were premeditated." and declined prosecuting Pantano for the killings, who maintained he had shot the men as they approached him in a threatening fashion.
- Timothy J. Keating
Admiral Timothy J. Keating assumed command of the United States Pacific Command on 26 March 2007. He left his position as commander of the North American Aerospace Defense Command and of the United States Northern Command at Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado on 23 March 2007. Keating was born on November 5 1949 in Dayton, Ohio. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1971. Following duty aboard USS Leonard F. Mason (DD-852) in the western Pacific, …
- John M. Brown III
John M. Brown III is Commander of United States Army Pacific Command, headquartered at Fort Shafter, Hawaii. He assumed his present position August 25, 2004. He enlisted in the Army as an infantryman in 1969 and became an officer upon completion of Infantry Officer Candidate School in 1971 where he was commissioned a second lieutenant of Infantry.
- Dominic L. Pudwill Gorie
Dominic Lee Pudwill Gorie (born 2 May 1957) is an American Naval officer and a NASA astronaut. He is a veteran of three space shuttle missions. Gorie, born in Lake Charles, Louisiana, enrolled in the United States Naval Academy where he studied ocean engineering. He also graduated from the University of Tennessee in 1990 later on. Following graduation in 1979, he trained as a pilot and served tours of duty aboard the carriers USS "America" and "Coral Sea".
- Rick Francona
Rick Francona is a commentator and media military analyst. He is a retired United States Air Force intelligence officer with extensive operational experience in the Middle East, including tours of duty with the National Security Agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency and the Central Intelligence Agency. He is currently under contract to NBC News and appears regularly on NBC, MSNBC and CNBC, as well as Radio Canada and other worldwide media.
- Van Hilleary
William Vanderpool Hilleary, usually known as Van Hilleary (born June 20, 1959) is a Republican politician from Tennessee.
- Chad Hennings
Chad William Hennings (born October 20, 1965) played defensive lineman for the Air Force Academy Falcons. Hennings went on to play in the National Football League with the Dallas Cowboys, winning three Super Bowls. He was born in Elberon, Iowa. While in high school, Hennings became the state heavyweight wrestling champion his senior year. After graduating from the United States Air Force Academy in 1988, Hennings entered the Euro-NATO program, …
- Jay Fawcett
Jay Fawcett ran for Congress as the Democratic nominee in. He is a veteran of the United States Air Force. Fawcett was considered a strong Democratic candidate in the heavily Republican 5th District. Despite this, he lost by 19 points to Republican Doug Lamborn in the general election.
- Carl Sheeler
Carl Sheeler (born June 1, 1960) is a U.S. Marine Corps veteran, business owner, and former Democratic U.S. Senate candidate in Rhode Island.
- J.H. Binford Peay III
James Henry Binford "Binnie" Peay III (born May 10, 1940, in Richmond, Virginia) is a retired four-star general from the United States Army and is currently the 14th Superintendent of the Virginia Military Institute. He is also chairman of the Allied Defense Group and a director of BAE Systems Inc. He is a trustee of the George C. Marshall Foundation, the National Defense University, and the VMI Foundation.
- Greg Laughlin
Gregory H. (Greg) Laughlin (born January 21, 1942) is a politician from the state of Texas. He is a former member of the United States House of Representatives. Laughlin was born in Bay City, Texas, and he graduated from Texas A&M University. Laughlin served in the United States Army from 1968 to 1970 and later was a reservist. Before election to Congress in 1988, he practiced law in Texas and served as Assistant District Attorney in Houston, Texas, for four years.
- Gordon M. Johnson
Gordon M. Johnson has served in the New Jersey General Assembly since 2002, where he represents the 37th legislative district. Assemblyman Johnson serves on Committees in the General Assembly on Law and Public Safety (Vice Chair), Homeland Security and State Preparedness and Transportation. Johnson is an Undersheriff in the Bergen County Sheriff’s Department, a position he has filled since 2002 and from 1999-2001. He was the Bergen County Sheriff from 2001-2002, …
- Anthony Wynn
Anthony Wynn (born 1962, Eugene, Oregon) is an author and playwright. His background includes service in the U.S. Air Force, SHAPE and NATO, the Gulf War (Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm) in Saudi Arabia, and work as a Federal employee for the U.S. Air Force Reserve in Portland, Oregon.
- Domingo Arroyo Jr.
Private First Class Domingo Arroyo, Jr. (March 7, 1971-January 13, 1993) born in Bayamon, Puerto Rico, was the first United States Marine to be killed in Operation Restore Hope during the Somalian Civil War.
- Hunt Downer
Huntington Blair "Hunt" Downer, Jr. (born April 28, 1946), is a Republican politician in the U.S. state of Louisiana who is the assistant adjutant general of the state National Guard and the first ever director of the new Louisiana Veterans Affairs Department. A former Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives from Houma, the seat of Terrebonne Parish in south Louisiana, Downer ran for governor in 2003 and finished in sixth place in the jungle primary.
- Doug Roulstone
Doug Roulstone is an American politician and 27-year veteran of the United States Navy. He was the 2006 Republican candidate for Congress in Washington's Second Congressional District, challenging incumbent Democrat Rick Larsen. Roulstone was defeated by Larsen, receiving 35.8% of the vote to Larsen's 64.2%. Roulstone, born in Norfolk, Virginia, the son of Navy Captain Don John "Jack" Roulstone, …
- Lee Mroszak
Lee Anthony Mroszak (born December 11, 1968 in Minnesota), known by the on-air moniker Cabbie, is a deejay on New York City's 92.3 K-Rock and former regular guest on "The Howard Stern Show". On his show, Mroszak regularly deals with the topics of the day relating to life in America. These topics may also include music and hard rock, some of Mroszak's many lifelong recreational passions.
- Ronald J. Bath
Maj. Gen. Ronald J. Bath directs U.S. Air Force Strategic Planning for the service's Deputy Chief of Staff for Plans and Programs at service headquarters in the Pentagon. Bath's prior assignment was as Director, Quadrennial Defense Review and Defense Integration. The Defense Integration Office was established to prepare and represent the Air Force in the QDR and the follow-on actions, …
- Bob Hymel
Robert Hymel was one of the victims of the 9/11 attacks on the Pentagon. Hymel was a B-52 co-pilot during the Vietnam War. In December 1972, his plane was hit by a missile over Hanoi but managed to fly back to U Tapao, the crew elected to not abandon the aircraft in flight due to the fact that the tail gunner was badly hurt and might not be able to escape the aircraft. Despite haveing all 4 engines out of action on one side an abborted attempt to land was made, …
- C.J. Chivers
Christopher John Chivers is an American journalist who reports for "The New York Times". He is currently assigned to the bureau in Moscow. A 1987 graduate of Cornell University, Chivers served in the U.S. Marine Corps infantry until 1994. He was in the first Gulf War and in peacekeeping operations during the Los Angeles riots in 1992. Following graduation from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, …