RON JANSEN is a West Michigan native who grew up playing war in the fields and woods near his hometown of Dorr. He spent a few years playing football in community college before joining the Marine Reserves after the attacks of September 11. He was deployed to Djibouti after completing training and spent seven months in the extreme heat protecting a US base from the local camels and goats. Three years later he was deployed to Fallujah, Iraq, and led an infantry squad in counter-insurgency operations. Today he is a proud husband to Anne, and father of four awesome children. He currently resides in Byron Center, Michigan, just a few miles from the battlefields of his youth.