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Michael Yon

American journalist

PersonhumanQ6835486

Born: 1964
Birthplace: Winter Haven
Citizenship: United States
Occupation: soldier
, journalist
, blogger

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Michael Yon is an American writer and photographer. He served in the Special Forces in the early-1980s, and he became a writer in the mid-1990s. He focused on military writing after the invasion of Iraq. Yon has been embedded on numerous occasions with American and British troops in Iraq, most prominently a deployment with the 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment of the 25th Infantry Division in Mosul, Iraq that ended in September 2005.

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TThe Hate Farm: China Is Planting a Bitter Harvest2017

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30 statements · 23% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations

Given name: Michael
Member of: United States Army Special Forces
Military branch: United States Army
Sex or gender: male
Social media followers: 62,697(February 11, 2023) x (twitter) numeric user id: 56443453
54,173(February 24, 2022) x (twitter) numeric user id: 56443453
40,043(January 7, 2021) x (twitter) numeric user id: 56443453
36,234(April 26, 2020) x (twitter) numeric user id: 56443453

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