Wesley Gray
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Wesley R. Gray is an American author, veteran and a former assistant professor of finance. He is best known for his book, EMBEDDED: A Marine Corps Adviser Inside the Iraqi Army, an account of his eight-month military assignment in Iraq.
Raised on a cattle ranch in Colorado and having spent part of his youth in Northern California,[1][2] Gray graduated magna cum laude from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania with a Bachelor of Science degree in economics in 2002.[3][4] After graduating, he enrolled at the University of Chicago.[5]
Military service
In 2004, Gray took a four-year sabbatical from his studies to serve as an intelligence officer in the United States Marine Corps.[5] He spent his first two years as an intelligence officer in Asia.[6] In 2006, Marine lieutenant Gray served on a Military Transition Team in Haditha, Iraq as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom. There he served as an embedded officer providing advice, mentoring and support to the Iraqi in place of U.S. Special Forces who were spread too thin to perform the task.[5] Following his service, he became a captain in the United States Marine Corps Reserve.[7]
