Sen. Jack Reed back from Iraq

usna09mom
Tue, 10 Jul 2007 16:03:15 +0000

Listen to a conversation with Democratic Senator Jack Reed, USMA '71. Reed just returned from one of his numerous trips to Iraq and discusses the changing role of the American military in Iraq. Broadcast last night on Charlie Rose:

http://www.charlierose.com/home

"A leader on defense, education, and health care issues, Reed is a senior member of the Armed Services Committee and a former Army Ranger. In 2006, Time magazine noted: “Reed is a serious, intellectually honest veteran and an expert on defense issues in the Senate.”

After graduating from West Point and receiving an active duty commission in the United States Army, Reed attended the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University where he received a Masters of Public Policy. Reed, an Army Ranger and a paratrooper, served in the 82nd Airborne Division as an Infantry Platoon leader, a Company Commander, and a Battalion Staff Officer. He returned to West Point in 1978 as an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Sciences.

Reed resigned from the Army as a Captain in 1979 and enrolled at Harvard Law School. In 1982, he graduated from Harvard and served a year as an associate with the Washington, DC law firm of Sutherland, Asbill, and Brennan.