GUEST OVERVIEW: Morgan Lerette is an author, a combat veteran and former Blackwater employee who has been deployed to the Middle East multiple times. In 1999 Lerette joined the Air Force and participated in the Ground Offensive in Iraq in 2003. From 2004 - 2005, he was a private military contractor (PMC) for Blackwater – the most notorious contractor in Iraq. Later he became an Army intelligence officer and served in Iraq in 2009 – 2010. He later attended The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, earning a master’s degree in international banking and finance.

His irreverently honest memoir, Guns, Girls, and Greed: I Was a Blackwater Mercenary in Iraq, delves into the complexities of private armies in combat zones and explores the bonds forged by war. Morgan’s writing has been featured in or contributed to - just to name a few - The Fletcher Forum, The War Horse, Yahoo Finance, The Military Times, Business Insider, Outdoor Magazine, The National Inquirer, Task and Purpose, Soldier of Fortune, Stars and Stripes, We are the Mighty, Coffee or Die Magazine and more. You can find him on X, Instagram and TikTok at @BlackwaterDude1