Nathaniel Fick
| Nathaniel Fick | |
|---|---|
| Nickname(s) | Nate |
| Born |
June 23, 1977 Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. |
| Allegiance |
 United States of America
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| Service/branch |
 United States Marine Corps
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| Years of service | 1999–2003 |
| Rank |
 Captain
|
| Commands held | Weapons Platoon, Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 1st Marines 2nd Platoon, Bravo Company, 1st Reconnaissance Battalion |
| Battles/wars | |
Nathaniel C. "Nate" Fick (born June 23, 1977) is a former United States Marine Corps officer and the CEO of Endgame, Inc., a cyber security software company. He is also an Operating Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners. He came to public notice for his writing on military life and the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq. Fick is the author of One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer, a memoir of his military experience published in 2005 that was a New York Times bestseller, one of the Washington Post's "Best Books of the Year," and one of the Military Times' "Best Military Books of the Decade."
Fick was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1977, and attended Loyola Blakefield high school in Towson, Maryland. Fick went on to attend Dartmouth College. He later graduated with degrees in classics and government in 1999. While at Dartmouth, Fick captained the cycling team to a U.S. National Championship and wrote a senior thesis on Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War and its implications for American foreign policy.
In 1998, after his junior year at Dartmouth, Fick attended the United States Marine Corps Officer Candidates School and was commissioned a second lieutenant upon his college graduation the following year.
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