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Bravo Company: An Afghanistan Deployment and its Aftermath
The Theology Department and the Peace, Justice, and Conflict Studies Department will host a special lecture by Ben Kesling titled “Bravo Company: An Afghanistan Deployment and Its Aftermath” on Thursday, February 2, from 5:30 – 6:30 pm in the Information Commons 4th Floor Lecture Hall. Ben is a reporter with the Wall Street Journal and served in the Marines in Iraq and Afghanistan and has now published a book that follows the deployment of Bravo Company, a parachute infantry regiment in the 82nd Airborne Division, in Afghanistan in 2009, and reports on the impact of the war on the lives of the solders after they returned stateside.
Biography
Ben Kesling is a Midwest correspondent with The Wall Street Journal in the Chicago bureau where he also focuses on domestic security and veterans issues. He was previously a national security and veterans issues reporter at the Journal's bureau in Washington. He also has experience as a foreign and combat correspondent.
Ben graduated from Wabash College and has a Master of Divinity degree from the Harvard Divinity School. He attended Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University. He also served as a Marine Corps Infantry officer and is a two day Jeopardy! Champion.