Wesley R. Gray is an American author, veteran and a former assistant professor of finance. He is best known for his book, ''EMBEDDED: A Marine Corps Adviser Inside the Iraqi Army'', an account of his eight-month military assignment in
Iraq.
Early life
Raised on a cattle ranch in Colorado and having spent part of his youth in Northern California, Gray graduated
magna cum laude
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from the
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania with a
Bachelor of Science degree in
economics in 2002.
After graduating, he enrolled at the
University of Chicago.
Military service
In 2004, Gray took a four-year sabbatical from his studies to serve as an
intelligence officer in the United States Marine Corps.
[ He spent his first two years as an intelligence officer in Asia.][ In 2006, Marine lieutenant Gray served on a Military Transition Team in ]Haditha, Iraq
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as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom
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. There he served as an embedded officer providing advice, mentoring and support to the Iraqi in place of U.S. Special Forces who were spread too thin to perform the task.[ Following his service, he became a captain in the United States Marine Corps Reserve.][
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Post-military career
Gray wrote ''EMBEDDED: A Marine Corps Adviser Inside the Iraqi Army'', which was released in April 2009 and published by the U.S. Naval Institute Press
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.[ Graeme Sligo, reviewing the book for the '']Australian Army Journal
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'', concluded that it "is a well-written description of what it was like to be an adviser to an Iraqi Army file unit in Anbar Province."finance
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from the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business in 2010.[
In 2010, Gray founded an investment startup with Carl Kanner and initially managed money for a billionaire family.][ He has stated that , his Alpha Architect financial services company managed $200 million in assets and employed 10 full-time employees.]exchange-traded fund
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(ETF)—following its October initial offering.
Personal life
Gray's wife is named Katie.[ During his time in the Marine Corps, Gray learned to speak Arabic.][
]
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1970s births
Living people
21st-century American non-fiction writers
University of Chicago faculty
American financial businesspeople
American male non-fiction writers
United States Marine Corps officers
University of Chicago Booth School of Business alumni
Wharton School alumni
21st-century American male writers