Bing West served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs in the Reagan administration. A graduate of Georgetown and Princeton Universities, he served in the Marine infantry in Vietnam. His books have won the Marine Corps Heritage Prize, the Colby Award for Military History, the VFW Media Award and appear on the Commandant’s Reading List. READ FULL BIO
SitRep...
Bing has visited Iraq and Afghanistan over 20 times to embed with troops. Read the latest trip report here.
Owen West is a graduate of Harvard College and Stanford Business School. He 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. A former heavyweight rower, he has completed 100-mile marathons, attempted Mt. Everest and finished as high as 2nd in the Eco Challenge. READ FULL BIO
West Family Scholarship...
Owen is donating his net proceeds from The Snake Eaters to The Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation and to the families of fallen advisors and fallen Iraqi “Snake Eaters.”
