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Guy Snodgrass From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigationJump to search Guy Snodgrass Commander Guy Snodgrass.jpg Chief Speechwriter, Communications Director United States Secretary of Defense In office April, 2017 – August, 2018 President Donald Trump Preceded by Vacant Assistant Chief of Staff for Training and Readiness for Commander Naval Air Force Atlantic In office January, 2016 – April, 2017 President Barack Obama Donald Trump Commanding Officer of VFA-195 In office 2015 – December, 2016 President Barack Obama Personal details Born Guy Snodgrass 1976 (age 42–43) Colleyville, Texas, U.S. Education United States Naval Academy (BS) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MS United States Naval War College (MS) Military service Nickname(s) "Bus" (callsign) Allegiance United States Branch/service United States Navy Years of service 1998–2018 Rank Commander Commands Strike Fighter Squadron 195 (VFA-195) Battles/wars Operation Iraqi Freedom

Awards

Defense Superior Service Medal Meritorious Service Medal Air Medal Navy Commendation Medal (4) Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal

Guy Snodgrass is een gepensioneerde Amerikaanse marine-vliegenier en instructeur. Hij fungeerde al speechwriter en perschef van James Mattis tijdens diens ministerschap van Defensie in het Kabinet-Trump.

Snodgrass owns and manages a strategic advisory firm in Northern Virginia, serving government and tech industry clients. His book, Holding the Line: Inside Trump's Pentagon with Secretary Mattis, was released in October 2019. The book details key decisions and moments during Mattis' time as Secretary of Defense and provides the author's first hand look into the relationship between Mattis and Trump, the Pentagon, The White House, and American national security decision making. Snodgrass' manuscript was initially stonewalled and delayed during the Pentagon review process forcing him to take legal action against his former employer. He won a complex First Amendment fight concerning the release of a book regarding his time at the Pentagon.[1][2][3][4]

Early life

A native of Colleyville, Texas, Guy Snodgrass attended Grapevine High School. He graduated with honors from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1998 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science. Immediately following graduation, he attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he earned two master's degrees (master's thesis was “Benchmark Test Problem for Measuring Anomalous Dissipation in Shock Hydrodynamics Simulations,” conducted with Los Alamos National Laboratory).[5]

Military career

Snodgrass was commissioned as an ensign in the United States Navy in 1998 following graduation from the Naval Academy.

A career F/A-18 Hornet pilot, Snodgrass flew combat sorties from an aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf in direct support of Operation Iraqi Freedom during his first tour of duty with Strike Fighter Squadron 131. Following this tour, he was selected to serve as a TOPGUN instructor at the US Navy Strike Fighter Weapons School located in Fallon, Nevada. From 2008 to 2011, he served as a training officer and department head with Strike Fighter Squadron 102 based at Naval Air Facility Atsugi, located in Ayase, Japan. During this tour, Snodgrass was selected as the 2008 Strike Fighter Wing Pacific Pilot of the Year, 2009 Strike Fighter Wing Pacific Tactical Aviator of the Year, 2010 Naval Air Forces Michael G. Hoff Attack Aviator of the Year, and received the 2010 Naval Air Forces Pacific Navy and Marine Corps Leadership Award. He was also selected as a national finalist for the White House Fellows program.

In 2011, Snodgrass attended the United States Naval War College located in Newport, Rhode Island, earning a Master of Arts in national security and strategic studies. He graduated first in his class, and was selected as the President's Honor Graduate and for the Admiral William Sims Award as the college's distinguished graduate. He also earned several awards for his writings.

Snodgrass was subsequently selected for the U.S. Navy's 2014 Quadrennial Defense Review team, where he assessed U.S. Navy force structure and made recommendations regarding future fleet design. During this tour, he was selected to serve as speechwriter to Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Jonathan Greenert in the Pentagon in 2012.[6]

In the autumn 2014 edition of the Naval War College Review, Snodgrass published "Keep a Weather Eye on the Horizon: A Navy Officer Retention Study." The study and associated writings grabbed the attention of junior officers and senior leaders across the Navy. Snodgrass' findings and assertions changed the retention conversation and helped launch early talent management conversations in the Navy and across DoD.[7]

Following his Pentagon tour, Snodgrass returned overseas to Naval Air Facility Atsugi, Japan, to assume command of Strike Fighter Squadron 195. During this time, he created the 2015 Far East Commanders Conference, later renamed to the Pacific Warfighter Symposium, when it became hosted by the United States Pacific Fleet in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. He also created and hosted the Benkyoukai Initiative, a partnership between US Navy fighter squadrons based in Japan and the Japanese Air Self Defense Force to exchange knowledge and practice aerial war fighting. His command subsequently earned the US Navy's Battle Efficiency award, presented annually to the finest US Navy F/A-18 squadron in the Western Hemisphere.

Snodgrass served as Chief Speechwriter and Director of Communications to Secretary of Defense James Mattis from April 2017 to August 2018. He is the author of the Department of Defense's officially released Unclassified Summary of the 2018 National Defense Strategy.

Holding the Line

Released in October 2019, Holding the Line: Inside the Pentagon With General Mattis is a book written based on Snodgrass's time as Mattis's speechwriter and Chief of Communications.[8] It was submitted to the Pentagon's censors in April 2019. While the book contains no classified information, it was being held up because of the military's discomfort with the description of non-classified discussions in Pentagon conference rooms.[9] In August 2019, Snodgrass sued the Pentagon, alleging that they had baselessly stalled the release of his book, trying to delay it so that Mattis's own book would be released first.[10] Released emails from the suit show that the Pentagon told Snodgrass, "Senior leaders have directed my office to hold our response pending the outcome of high level discussions,"[11] The Pentagon released the book for publication in September 2019, a week after Mattis's book release.[12] Secretary Mattis released a statement in response, referring to Snodgrass as a junior staffer who had forsaken his honor to publish a book about his firsthand experiences.[13][14]

Civilian career

Snodgrass is the Chief Executive Officer of Defense Analytics, a strategic advisory firm in Washington, DC and is a regular contributor to the Washington Post, Politico, Fox Business, USA Today, and elsewhere.[15][16][17][18] He is an Eagle Scout, and a member of numerous professional societies and organizations including the U.S. Naval Institute Board of Directors.[19]

Privé

Snodgrass lives in the greater DC metro area.

Books

Holding the Line: Inside Trump's Pentagon with Secretary Mattis. Sentinel, Octr. 2019.[20]