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Matthew Betley
Biography
Matthew Betley is a former Marine officer, a recovering alcoholic, and a political action thriller author of multiple novels from Simon & Schuster. Follow him on Twitter at @MatthewBetley or find him on Facebook.
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War, Burn Pits, Resentment, and Grace: A Natural Imbalance
By Matthew Betley
Last week, our incompetent and functionally broken congress passed the PACT Act that expands VA health care and benefits for ...
August 07, 2022
COVID 2: The Omicron Enigma
By Matthew Betley
While that title sounds like a Robert Ludlum novel, it’s actually the confusion I encountered just before and after I ...
January 24, 2022
The Confusion Illusion of Control in the Time of COVID
By Matthew Betley
I’m 49, lift weights, run 50+ miles a month, and am currently recovering from post-COVID issues. The initial hit was ...
October 19, 2021
Unfit to Serve, Undeserving to Lead
By Matthew Betley
In all my lifetime, I have never witnessed such an unparalleled, shameful, disgraceful, embarrassing, and reckless foreign policy disaster as ...
August 21, 2021
How Congress and Partisanship Continue to Fail Our Warfighters
By Matthew Betley
In 2006, I deployed to Fallujah, Iraq, and returned in early 2007. Within a month, I started getting sick with ...
October 08, 2020
The United States of Perpetual Outrage
By Matthew Betley
I’m an angry man, and by angry, I mean living in a state of perpetual outrage over the events that ...
August 27, 2020
No Matter What They Say, It’s Always About America, the Flag, and the Military
By Matthew Betley
Three years ago, as Colin Kaepernick knelt the NFL into submission and injected woke politics into sports, I penned my ...
July 23, 2020
Common Sense in the Time of Corona
By Matthew Betley
Quarantine Life – Day 25. I’m a cynic. I wasn’t when I was younger – I was an energized, enthusiastic ...
April 07, 2020
When Apathy Rules The Day
By Matthew Betley
Our society is sick, not in a twisted and deranged way, but in a manner that’s more subtle, much more ...
July 06, 2019
Broken Promises Part III: Successfully Navigating The Mysteries Of The VA
By Matthew Betley
It’s been a rough six weeks. In a short span of time, I fired my literary agent, shattered my ...
May 13, 2019
Broken Promises Part II: The VA Strikes Back
By Matthew Betley
Several weeks ago, I chronicled here my yearlong battle with the VA (an oxymoronic statement, if there ever was one) ...
March 11, 2019
Broken Promises: The VA Struggle Is Real
By Matthew Betley
As a former Marine with a bit of a tough-guy persona (even if I am self-deluded), I lift weights, run, ...
February 10, 2019
Faithful to the Core
By Matthew Betley
Last weekend, I was truly humbled to be the guest of honor at Miami University’s (Oxford, OH) Naval ROTC Marine ...
November 09, 2018
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