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YOUR Experience.
Meet John
John Fenzel is a senior Army Special Forces officer who has served on our nation’s battlefields around the world. He has served as a military assistant on the personal staff of the Secretary of Defense, as a Special Assistant to the Vice President, and as a White House Fellow during the Clinton and Bush administrations.
He commanded the Special Forces Training Battalion at Fort Bragg, North Carolina and an Army brigade at Fort Knox, Kentucky. In the wake of the September 11th attacks, he served as Staff Director for Tom Ridge in the Homeland Security Council. He was the principal architect of The Homeland Advisory System, our nation’s color-coded alert system.
After stepping out of uniform, John has been a senior corporate executive, speaker, author, and historian who has led applied leadership experiences from Gettysburg to Normandy.
In his 30 years of military service, John has served in numerous command and staff positions around the world. During Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm, he commanded a Special Forces “A-Team,” training, equipping and advising a Kuwaiti Battalion and accompanying them during the liberation of Kuwait. He has commanded three Special Forces companies, leading the first Army deployments to Pakistan and the Baltic States. In Bosnia he commanded the special operations teams in the U.S. and British sectors, working closely with the United Nations to secure the indictments and convictions of those responsible for war crimes in Srebrenica. He is the only active duty American military officer to testify at The Hague in support of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY).
John is a graduate of the Naval War College and the National War College. Born in Iowa and raised outside Chicago, John lives with his wife and three children in Annapolis, MD. John is the author of three acclaimed novels, The Lazarus Covenant (2009), The Sterling Forest (2016) and The Fifth Column (2018).
Meet George
The Official Vehicle of LeadX
Whether you're in Maine or Alaska, we knew a safe, nationwide expedition would require a really capable, reliable vehicle that could take us anywhere we'd need to go. After a lot of searching, we chose a 1994 G Wagon, a G350 Turbo Diesel.
Despite the fact that it's nearly three decades old, it's in tremendous condition. If there ever was an ideal Overlanding vehicle, this is certainly one of them.
It was imported from Germany to Poland, and then brought to the United States about four years ago once it turned 25 and could be imported without any further compliance modifications. We found it just outside Chicago, and knew right away it was the perfect truck for us.
In preparation for the expedition to come, we've been making some modifications to it that will help to sustain the overland expedition to come. We’ve been producing a program or two on that whole process.
And, in honor of our most famous Founding Father, we thought we'd name this G, "George."
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