Jason Tudor

Born in Providence, Rhode Island in 1969, Jason grew up in various locations around the country as a Navy brat. He graduated from Point Loma High School, Point Loma, California, in 1987 and joined the Air Force later that year. He served 21 years in the Air Force as a public affairs specialist. Within that job, he served as a combat correspondent, piloting an F-15 Eagle jet fighter and a sailplane, flying through a hurricane, and traveling to New Orleans to cover the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. He also deployed to Baghdad, Iraq and two other undisclosed locations during Operations Iraqi Freedom, Enduring Freedom and Joint Task Force Horn of Africa. He has written for and edited four weekly newspapers and served as a senior staff writer for the U.S. Air Force’s flagship publication, Airman magazine.

Jason likes James Bond a lot, so he wrote his first book at age 14, called “Lucifer Castaway.” It ran 108 spiral-notebook-bound pages. His second book novel, “The Cerebus Dream” ran considerably longer but served mostly as therapy while he recovered from testicular cancer. Novels three and four are currently in production.

Today, Jason lives and works in Germany as a public affairs specialist for the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies. (Disclaimer: the opinions expressed on this blog and on other Internet platforms where I may contribute write are solely my opinions and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of Defense, the US Army or the Marshall Center.)

Jason is a guest blogger for “The Furnace,” primarily talking about comic books, pop culture and other things that fascinate him. Recently, An Army of Ermas also added him as a guest blogger. He is three-time first-place recipient of the Department of Defense’s Thomas Jefferson Award. He received another 100-plus awards from the U.S. Air Force and civilian agencies for writing, photography, illustration and more.

His wife, Denise, tolerates him. His daughter, Annabelle, loves him.

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