Tim Lynch retired for the United States Marine Corps after 22 years of active service. He joined the United States Navy in 1979, spending six years as a hospital corpsman. Tim completed the requirements for a B.S. in business administration shortly after completing his enlistment and entered the USMC Officer Candidate Course in October 1985. He served the next sixteen years as an infantry officer, commanding at every rank until his retirement in 2000. During this period, he participated in three overseas deployments with Fleet Marine Force units, served in instructor billets at both the Basic School and the Infantry Officer Course, and served as the Officer in Charge, Special Missions Branch, Special Operations Training Group, Marine Forces Atlantic. He received his A.S. in medical laboratory technology from George Washington University in 1983 and his B.S. in Business Administration in 1985.
He has been working in Afghanistan since 2005 when he headed the transition at the US Embassy from a US military to private contractor guard force as the Project Manager for Global Risk Strategies. In 2006 he co-founded Vigilant Strategic Services Afghanistan, a security consulting company based in Kabul servicing United States Government agencies as well as the Government of Japan’s development arm, the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA.) In 2008 he founded Free Range International; a rapidly growing military oriented blog. Tim remains in Jalalabad working as a USAID project manager specializing on large cash for work projects.
To see the FAB6-presentation.