Gary Owen

Gary Owen is the pen name of a civilian development worker who has spent the last several years working in Afghanistan. A former infantry and civil affairs officer, he deployed twice to Iraq before leaving the military for a job as an idealist with a mortgage. He and his wife call Texas home when he’s not overseas trying to right the world’s wrongs one spreadsheet at a time. Read more of his musings on Afghanistan at his blog, Sunny in Kabul. (EDITOR'S NOTE: In order to preserve the author's pseudonymity, we have used a picture from his time touring with Van Halen.)