First Sergeant CJ Grisham is a 14 year career Soldier stationed in Alabama. He joined the Army in October 1994 after realizing he needed a little structure and discipline in his life. The purple hair was also beginning to clash with his plaid shirts and he realized that a career at the Taco Bell drive through wasn't doing anything to get him the girls. His father is retired from the Navy and his grandfather served in the European theater during WWII as a belly gunner and bombardier of a B24. He started his blog, A Soldier's Perspective, after returning from OIF1 in 2003 and realized that he needed an avenue to tell his story and as a way of therapy to deal with his own demons of combat. Eventually, his blog morphed into a way to tell the Soldiers' story about the realities of combat on the ground. Seeing that media coverage was overwhelmingly biased against the war effort, he went through great efforts to put out the success stories and highlight the heroes of our military. CJ continues that tradition along with providing a military perspective to political issues affecting the armed services and its members. He is 100% dedicated to taking care of Soldiers, whether or not they are his. CJ is happily married to his hot wife, Emily, and they have three beautiful children. His goal is to retire from the military and begin a political career at the state or national level. Or teach JROTC - whichever happens first! CJ also started They Have Names, a site dedicated to the memory of our fallen troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.