Jonathan Hancock

Jonathan Hancock (March 19, 1983) is a US Marine veteran, author and artist. Hancock served as a member of the 2nd Battalion 4th Marines in a variety of reconnaissance missions in Iraq, Afghanistan and Africa. He was involved in several deployments from 2001 through 2009 eventually becoming an interrogator and source handler, and rising to the rank of staff sergeant.

On September 11, 2015, he began a journey by foot across the United States from College Park, MD ending at Camp Pendleton in San Clemente, CA on December 12, 2016. He walked 5,805 miles visiting members of his former battalion, friends and families of fallen comrades.