Lieutenant Colonel Robert "Buzz" Patterson, United States Air Force (Retired),

Lieutenant Colonel Robert "Buzz" Patterson, United States Air Force
(Retired), is the author of New York Times best sellers,
Dereliction of Duty: The Eyewitness Account of How Bill Clinton
Compromised America's National Security and Reckless Disregard: How
Liberal Democrats Undercut Our Military, Endanger Our Soldiers, and
Jeopardize Our Security, and War Crimes: The Left's Campaign to
Destroy the Military and Lose the War on Terror. His new book,
"Conduct Unbecoming: How Barack Obama is Endangering Our National
Security," will be released on September 7th, 2010.

Patterson served 20 years as a pilot on active duty in the United
States Air Force and saw tours of duty world-wide including combat
operations in Grenada, Somalia, Rwanda, Haiti, and Bosnia.

From 1996 to 1998, Colonel Patterson was the Senior Military Aide
to President Bill Clinton. During that time he was responsible for
the President's Emergency Satchel, otherwise known as the "Nuclear
Football," the black bag with the nation's nuclear capability that
accompanies the president at all times. In addition, Colonel
Patterson was operational commander for all military units assigned
to the White House, which included Air Force One, Marine One, Camp
David, White House Transportation Agency and White House
Mess.

Among his many military commendations, Patterson received the
Defense Superior Service Medal for accomplishments while at the
White House and was awarded the Air Force Air Medal for flying
fifteen combat support missions into then-besieged Sarajevo,
Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1994. He retired in 2001 to pursue a career
as a commercial airline pilot, writer and conservative
speaker.

As a result of his experiences and writings, he's been featured in
films such as Hillary: The Movie and Blocking the Path to 9/11. He
is a frequent guest on talk shows across the country, including
television appearances on ABC News with Diane Sawyer, The Hannity
Show, The O'Reilly Factor, CBS' Morning Show, Fox and Friends,
Hardball with Chris Matthews, The Dennis Miller Show, C-SPAN's Book
Notes, Joe Scarborough, Heartland with John Kasich, and MSNBC News.
He's also been heard on radio shows ranging from Rush Limbaugh,
Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Michael Savage, G. Gordon Liddy to
Hugh Hewitt.

Patterson was born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He is a
Distinguished Graduate from the Air Command and Staff College; he
has his Bachelor's Degree in Political Science from Virginia Tech
University and a Master's in Business Administration from Webster
University in St. Louis, Missouri. He and his family currently
reside in California.

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