Was born on September 14, 1978, in Jacksonville, Florida.

[1] He is of Italian descent.

[2] His family moved to Orlando, Florida, before relocating to Dunedin, Florida, when he was six years old.

[3] In 1991, he was a member of the Little League team from Dunedin National that made it to the Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.

(4] After graduating from Dunedin High School in 1997, he attended Yale University. He was Captain of Yale's varsity baseball team and joined the Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity.

[5] On the Yale baseball team, he was an outfielder; as a senior in 2001, he had the team's best batting average at .336.

[6] He graduated from Yale in 2001 with a B.A. Magna Cum Laude in History.

[7] He then spent a year as a History Teacher at the Darlington School.

[8] He attended Harvard Law School, graduating in 2005 with a Juris Doctor Cum Laude.

[9] He received his Reserve Naval Officer's commission and assignment to the Judge Advocate General's Corps (JAG) in 2004 at the U.S. Naval Reserve Center in Dallas, Texas, while still a student at Harvard Law School.

[10] He completed Naval Justice School in 2005.

[11] Later that year, he received orders to the JAG Trial Service Office Command South East at Naval Station Mayport, Florida, as a Prosecutor.

[12] In 2006, he was promoted from Lieutenant, Junior Grade to Lieutenant. He worked for the Commander of Joint Task Force-Guantanamo (JTF-GTMO), working directly with detainees at the Guantanamo Bay Joint Detention Facility.

13] In 2007, he reported to the Naval Special Warfare Command Group in Coronado, California, where he was assigned to SEAL Team One and deployed to Iraq with the Troop surge as the Legal Advisor to the SEAL Commander, Special Operations Task Force-West in Fallujah.

[14] He returned to the U.S. in April 2008, at which time he was reassigned to the Naval Region Southeast Legal Service.

[15] The U.S. Department of Justice appointed him to serve as an Assistant U.S. Attorney at the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Middle District of Florida.

[16] He was assigned as a Trial Defense Counsel until his honorable discharge from active duty in February 2010.

[17] He concurrently accepted a reserve commission as a Lieutenant Commander in the Judge Advocate General's Corps of the US Navy Reserve.

[18] He was awarded the Bronze Star Medal, the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal, the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, and the Iraq Campaign Medal.

[19 He represented Florida's 6th Congressional District in the US House of Representatives from 2013 to 2018.

Oh, by the way, the former Navy Lt., is Ron DeSantis, Gov. of Florida.

Now that’s impressive!

Slacker

Chris

But can he put up fur and trap beaver?

This is the one of the reasons i will vote for him when he decides to run for POTUS. Like to see a Desantis/ Pompeo ticket.
Sarge

He was NOT a Navy Seal, he was assigned as a Legal Advisor to Seal Team One.

Yes, SJA is correct. Ron DeSantis served his country well and has a military record to be proud of, but he was NOT a Navy Seal.

That is a huge difference. Still served with distinction.

Chris

I’m still impressed!

How come Biden does not have a military record?

Hunter does, lol.
Did....

Biden wouldn't make a pimple on a military mans butt

Not to take anything away from his honorable service but for others to paint him in a light or make false claims does both him and all veterans a grave disservice.

Each and every one of us served in our own way and every job had honor. Those with tabs or tridents are a class unto themselves.

As stated, not a Seal, and I bet if someone referred to him as one, he’d dang sure put them in their place. He has NO need to steal someone’s service.

If anyone ever needs, or wants, to POSITIVLY VERIFY if someone was a Navy Seal, contact Senior Chief Don Shipley in Cambridge, Maryland. He has access to the names of EVERY Navy Seal that ever has been going back to the "UDT" phase before they were termed "Seals". You can Google him. :-)

one (This word is unacceptable on Trapperman) of a resume

On a Coast Guard mission to return a surf boat to the repair center in VA, I agreed to exchange our boat for another boat at a half way point about 50 miles from the final destination. When we arrived on a Sunday at noon, there were about a dozen well-tanned Navy Seals on a "fun trip" at the meeting spot. They had paddled kayaks on their free weekend and slept in hammocks in the woods Lots of beer and a barbeque in the woods. That Sunday morning they were (This word is unacceptable on Trapperman) because you can't buy beer until afternoon on Sunday They had paddled down the waterway from Little Creek, Virginia. To kill time, they went on a multi-mile run. One member had a broken arm and was in a cast. He was left to take down all the hammocks and store them in an inflatable boat that he operated, while the others paddled their kayaks Once they reloaded their kayaks with beer, they embarked on a 50 miles return trip. All this was on their weekend off.

I changed the title, I only copied and pasted the email I received I was not aware he wasn't a seal. I plead ignorance.

Well, like NS's say . . . “The Only Easy Day Was Yesterday.”

Since we've spoke of Seals in this thread, this is one of the best inspirational, motivational speeches I have ever heard (Navy Admiral SEAL): I wonder how many young people would understand this message . . . very few I'm sure :-(