Tom Young

Tom Young served in Afghanistan and Iraq with the Air National Guard. He has also flown combat missions to Bosnia and Kosovo, and additional missions to Latin America, the horn of Africa, and the Far East. In all, Mr. Young has logged more than 4,000 hours as a flight engineer on the C-5 Galaxy and the C-130 Hercules, while flying to nearly 40 countries. Military honors include two Air Medals, three Aerial Achievement Medals, and the Air Force Combat Action Medal.

Mr. Young is the author of three novels set in the Afghanistan war: The Mullah's Storm, Silent Enemy, and The Renegades. In civilian life, he spent ten years as a writer and editor with the broadcast division of the Associated Press, and flew as a first officer for Independence Air, an airline based at Dulles International Airport near Washington, D.C. He holds B.A. and M.A. degrees in Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.