He graduated from West Point in 2004, and Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs in 2013. He was deployed to Iraq from 2005 to 2006 and from 2007 to 2008 with the 101st Airborne Division. He commanded a Stryker company in Kandahar, Afghanistan, from 2010 to 2011. In 2015, he deployed with the 82nd Airborne Division to Baghdad in support of Operation Inherent Resolve serving as the Iraqi Security Forces development officer. The views expressed in this piece are his own.