Nathaniel C. "Nate" Fick (born 1977) is a veteran United States Marine Corps officer and CEO of the Center for a New American Security, a national security think tank based in Washington, D.C. He came to public notice for his writing on military life and the current conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq. Fick is the author of One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer, a memoir of his military experience published in 2005.
Fick was born in Balti...
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Nathaniel C. "Nate" Fick (born 1977) is a veteran United States Marine Corps officer and CEO of the Center for a New American Security, a national security think tank based in Washington, D.C. He came to public notice for his writing on military life and the current conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq. Fick is the author of One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer, a memoir of his military experience published in 2005.
Fick was born in Baltimore, Maryland and attended Loyola Blakefield high school in Towson, Maryland. He graduated with degrees in both classics and government from Dartmouth College in 1999. While at Dartmouth, Fick captained the cycling team to a U.S. National Championship and wrote a senior thesis on Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War and its implications for American foreign policy. In 1998, after his junior year at Dartmouth, he attended the United States Marine Corps Officer Candidates School and was commissioned a second lieutenant upon his college...
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