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DAVID J. DANELO -
PROFESSIONAL BIO
 David J. Danelo,
who became the editor for U.S.
Cavalry On Point in June 2006, graduated
from the U.S. Naval
Academy in 1998 and served as an infantry officer in the Marine
Corps for almost seven years. An Iraq war
veteran, Danelo deployed
to Camp Fallujah from Feb-Sept 2004, where he served with the
First Marine Expeditionary Force as
an assistant operations
officer, convoy commander, intelligence officer and provisional
executive officer for a rifle company.
His previous military
assignments include tours with 1st Battalion, 7th Marines and
Marine Corps Security Force Company, Bangor,
Washington. At the end of 2004,
Danelo left active
duty to pursue a writing
career. In 2005, he was commissioned as a freelance correspondent
for the U.S.
Naval Institute's flagship
publication, Proceedings,
for two assignments: the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina,
and the
Horn of Africa. He
also traveled to Vietnam
in 2005 to write a comparison of modern-day Vietnam and Iraq,
which was published
in Ngoui Viet Daily,
the largest Vietnamese
newspaper in North America. Danelo’s
work has also been in the Los Angeles Times, New York Post, military.com,
and Marine Corps Gazette.
Since the May 2006
publication of his
first book, Blood
Stripes: The Grunt's View of
the War in Iraq, Danelo has been featured in radio and television
media throughout the
United States, including
The Rusty Humphries
Show, The Joey Reynolds Show, and FOX News.
His writing has been
profiled in the Baltimore
Sun, Jacksonville Daily
News, Military Book
Club, and Booklist. In June 2006, Danelo addressed the Foreign
Policy Research Institute – an honor typically reserved
for professors. He is a member of numerous organizations, including
the Military Writer’s Society of America, Veterans of Foreign
Wars, American Legion,
and 1st Marine Division Association.
David lives with
his wife, Mary, in northeastern
Pennsylvania.
Clippings of Danelo’s writing:
Marines
in Iraq: The Warriors'
Way
What Vets Remember...and
the trouble with telling
civilians
Grunts and Generals
Branching Out
Marine-Style Persuasion
Praise the Platoon Sergeant
Happy Birthday Jarheads
A Marine Came for Me
(Hurrican Katrina)
Links related to Danelo
and/or Blood Stripes:
New Veterans Fear Repeat
of Vietnam
Telling the Military's
Stories
Proceedings
- Editor's Pages
Blood
Stripes: The Grunt's View of the War in Iraq
Love Letter to Grunts
Instapundit
Earning His Stripes
Military Writers Review
of Blood Stripes
www.bloodstripesbook.com
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