After enlisting in the US Army in 2003 at the age of twenty-one, Dr. Tony Brooks graduated from Infantry and Airborne school followed by the four-week Ranger Indoctrination program, officially checking in to the 2nd Ranger Battalion on Fort Lewis, Washington, in September 2004. He deployed to eastern Afghanistan in April 2005, based at Bagram Airfield. His first mission was Operation Red Wings II. Tony subsequently deployed to the Ramadi region of Iraq in 2006-2007. He was featured in Air & Space magazine and Discovery Channel's Black Files Declassified, as a subject matter expert on Operation Red Wings, and is also featured in the Backbone docuseries. Dr. Brooks lives in Everett, Washington.
