Dan Sheehan
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Dan Sheehan served twelve years in the Marine Corps. He flew helicopter gunships during the initial invasion of Iraq in 2003 and returned for a second tour with Marine Corps Special Operations Command, Detachment One, in 2004. His personal decorations include the Bronze Star and two Individual Action Air Medals for actions taken in combat.
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Dan Sheehan served twelve years in the Marine Corps. He flew helicopter gunships during the initial invasion of Iraq in 2003 and returned for a second tour with Marine Corps Special Operations Command, Detachment One, in 2004. His personal decorations include the Bronze Star and two Individual Action Air Medals for actions taken in combat.
After leaving active duty, Dan sought to put his combat tours behind him and move on with his life. Like many before him, he found that impossible to do. Dan turned to writing as a means to understand how his experiences in Iraq had affected him. His first book, After Action: The True Story of a Cobra Pilot’s Journey, gives a firsthand account of the life-changing decisions modern warriors must make in the heat of battle. After Action exposes the burdens many veterans carry and offers a means for these warriors to process them without the stigma of weakness.
After Action has won multiple awards including 2015 IndieReader Discovery Award, Gold Medal in the 2015 Independent Publishers Book Awards, Silver Medal in the 2014 Military Writers Society of America Book Awards, and a Bonze Medal in the 2014 IPPY awards (e-book category)
Dan's second book, Continuing Actions: A Warrior's Guide to Coming Home, won a 2015 Gold Nautilus Award in "Personal Growth" and a Bronze Medal in the 2016 Independent Publishers Book Awards "Memoir" category. Drawing on his own experiences, and the work of scholars and mental health professionals, Continuing Actions identifies how modern warriors are ill-prepared for the challenges of returning home and offers pragmatic suggestions for how individual veterans can overcome these shortfalls themselves.
When he’s not writing, Dan can usually be found spearfishing, surfing, or flying helicopters in southern California where he lives with his wife, two children, and two pit-bull mutts, Kitty and Teddy.