Christian Lowe in Iraq

Before assum­ing edi­tor duties at Defense Tech, Christian was a senior writer for The Politico cov­er­ing defense and national secu­rity issues after spend­ing five years with the Military Times news­pa­pers in Springfield Va. Always run­ning to the sound of the guns, he has cov­ered mil­i­tary oper­a­tions world­wide, embed­ding with Army and Marine units in both Iraq and Afghanistan, observ­ing deten­tion facil­i­ties at Guantanamo Bay, cov­er­ing human­i­tar­ian mis­sions in Lebanon and New Orleans, par­tic­i­pat­ing in train­ing exer­cises at mil­i­tary bases from California to Florida and report­ing on mil­i­tary pol­icy and bud­gets in the Pentagon and on Capitol Hill.

Christian trav­eled to Afghanistan in 2002 and 2004, spend­ing time in Kabul, Khost and Kandahar chas­ing the bin Laden trail and scour­ing the coun­try­side with U.S. forces for Taliban hold­outs. He went to Iraq in June of 2003, liv­ing in down­town Baghdad and trav­el­ing through­out the south of the coun­try for six weeks. Christian returned to Iraq in late 2005, spend­ing a month in Ramadi dur­ing the December par­lia­men­tary elec­tions and patrolling the streets of Hit in al Anbar province with the U.S. Marines dur­ing the new year.

In 2005, Christian was awarded the Associated Press Managing Editor’s Association award for inves­tiga­tive jour­nal­ism after expos­ing that the Marine Corps had fielded tens of thou­sands of body armor vests to troops in Iraq that had not passed qual­ity assur­ance test­ing by gov­ern­ment audi­tors. He was also part of an Emmy-​​nominated doc­u­men­tary team that fol­lowed a group of Marine Corps offi­cers from their first days of offi­cer train­ing to the bat­tle­fields of Iraq.

In 2008, Christian became Military.com’s first embed.

Raised in Charlottesville, Va., and a grad­u­ate of the University of Virginia, Christian lives on Capitol Hill with his wife Catherine, baby daugh­ter Eliza, and his Jack Russell ter­ri­ers Noor Whali and Banjo. When he’s not sniff­ing around for the lat­est defense and mil­i­tary news, he likes to take advan­tage of any oppor­tu­nity to slip out of town to go hunt­ing, fish­ing or surfing.

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