Marc Yablonka is a military journalist whose reportage
has appeared in the U.S. Military's Stars and Stripes,
Army Times,
Air Force Times,
American
Veteran, Vietnam magazine,
Airways,
Military Heritage,
Soldier of Fortune and many
other publications.
Between 2001 and 2008, Marc served as a Public
Affairs Officer, CWO-2, with the 40th Infantry Division Support
Brigade and Installation Support Group, California State
Military Reserve, Joint Forces Training Base, Los Alamitos,
California. During that time, he wrote articles and took
photographs in support of Soldiers who were mobilizing for and
demobilizing from Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation
Enduring Freedom.
His work was published in
Soldiers, official magazine of the United
States Army, Grizzly,
magazine of the California National Guard, the
Blade, magazine of the 63rd
Regional Readiness Command-U.S. Army Reserves,
Hawaii Army Weekly, and
Army Magazine, magazine of the
Association of the U.S. Army.
Marc's decorations include
the California National Guard Medal of Merit, California National Guard
Service Ribbon, and California National Guard Commendation Medal w/ Oak
Leaf. He also served two tours of duty with the Sar El Unit of the
Israeli Defense Forces and holds the Master's of Professional Writing
degree earned from the University of Southern California. Distant War:
Recollections of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia is Marc's first book.