Tim O'Neill
Tim served for 26 years in the US Army, commanding tank and armored cavalry units in training and combat and serving on squadron and brigade staffs, and was assigned to the faculty at West Point for sixteen years. He is a graduate of The Citadel with a BA in political science, an MACT in psychology and college teaching from the University of North Carolina, and a Ph.D. in experimental psychology from the University of Virginia, and attended the Armed Forces Staff College. He is now a consultant to US and foreign security forces, a researcher and designer of camouflage technology, and a professional writer. He has been a reenactor for sixteen years, and is a member of the 29th Division living history group. He lives in Roswell, Georgia, two hours from Fort Benning.
Lynn Kessler
A retired financial analyst, Lynn Kessler has been reenacting for nearly 20 years under various impressions -- 29th Infantry Division, 101st Airborne, 1st Infantry Division, 26th Infantry "Yankee" Division, 43rd Infantry Division, 1st Marines, 23rd Marines, 2nd and 7th Bns/The Black Watch, King's Own Scottish Borderers, and a number of Civil War units, both Blue and Gray. He attended Howe Military Academy and graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Hartford with an MA in Business Communications. While not having served in the U.S. armed forces, he has studied U.S. military history, operations and tactics all his life, and has taught several reenacting units in the basics and better details of tactics, D&C, military courtesy, comportment, leadership and material culture. Currently, he is a full-time writer, primarily of historical fiction, has previously published three books and has three more in various stages of development or publication.
Jud Spangler
Although he has possessed a lifelong interest in history since his first visit to Gettysburg at the age of five, Jud Spangler went on to become a banker for most of his 30 plus years of professional life, with stints in marketing and advertising mixed throughout.
He has been a re-enactor for 20 years, all of them in a German Gebirgsjäger impression, where he has been the 136 Regiment's (Re-enacted) leader since 2009. Jud has also served in a variety of overall reenactor event-level Axis command positions during that time, including Winterline at Newville, Liberation of New Oxford and the Battle of the Bulge. Carrying out those functions responsibly and authentically is also at the heart of his interest in learning and helping others learn.
Robert Mosher
A thirty year veteran of the Foreign Service with a political-military specialization, Robert served in Vietnam, the Congo, Northern Ireland, and Russia and spent two years in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. Trained as an Armored Scout/Observer at Fort Knox in 1972, he was a member of the Scout Platoon, 1st Bn, 115th Infantry, 29th Division, Maryland Army National Guard. He graduated from the US Naval War College in 1987.
After retirement, Robert Mosher spent several years supporting Army, Navy, and Marine Corps training exercises as a Role Player Manager, Role Player, and Interagency/State Department Subject Matter Expert. He worked exercises at the NTC at Fort Irwin and at JRTCs in Washington, California, Virginia, Louisiana, and North Carolina.
A reenactor since 2001, Robert has portrayed a soldier of the Irish Brigade of the Union Army, an Army Correspondent for The Boston Journal, a 1916 Easter Rising Irish Volunteer (in which role he led Philadelphia’s 2016 Centenary Easter Rising Commemoration Parade), and a member of the French Resistance Franc-Tireurs et Partisan. His WWII persona is as a Captain, 1st Bn, Royal Ulster Rifles Regiment (Glider Troops) recalled to service.
Rich Lees
Rich Lees is a serving member of the Canadian Armed Forces. He currently holds the rank of Master Warrant Officer in the Royal Canadian Logistics Service and currently works in a movements shop just outside of Ottawa Canada, where he coordinates troop and equipment movements all around the globe. During the past 32 years of service Rich has served in the Infantry, the Armoured Corps as a Tank Gunner, C-17 Loadmaster and a glorified baggage handler. His service has seen him travel worldwide on many missions, tours and divorces. He served in 1st Bn North Nova Scotia Highlanders, the 8th Canadian Hussars, 441 and 429 Sqn RCAF among others.
He started Re-enacting in 2006 by accident when he was an extra on a movie but never really got the bug until 2009 when he started attending his first events. You can usually find him in his 1 Can Para impression at events but he will come out dressed in whatever impression fits the scenario. He loves the events and the people involved and he is always inspired to improve his impression with each outing.