Lieutenant Colonel Michael Zacchea (USMC-Ret.) led the Kurds, Shiites, and Sunnis of the Iraqi Fifth Battalion and their U.S. advisers. He won two Bronze Stars, the Purple Heart, and Iraq's Order of the Lion of Babylon. Zacchea is currently director of the UConn Entrepreneur Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities.
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At a time when the United States debates how deeply to involve itself in Iraq and Syria, Lieutenant Colonel Michael Zacchea, USMC (Ret.), holds a unique vantage point on our still-ongoing war. Deployed to Iraq in March 2004, his team's mission was to buil... SEE MORE