Our twenty-ninth recipient, (Captain) Ben M. Kallas graduated from Harvard Business School in 2024 with an MBA. Ben served on active duty from 2014 to 2022, first as a ground intelligence officer and then as a reconnaissance officer. He was first assigned to 6th Marine Regiment and deployed to Helmand Province, Afghanistan with Task Force Southwest in 2017.  In Helmand he managed the task force’s intelligence production, analysis and targeting support, and established intelligence-sharing partnerships with U.S. special operations forces and partnered Afghan units.  He then transitioned to the reconnaissance community and joined 3d Reconnaissance Battalion in Okinawa, Japan in 2019.  While in Okinawa, he led a multidisciplinary intelligence detachment, centered on a senior reconnaissance team, to broaden the Marine Corps’ approach to reconnaissance operations in the Western Pacific.  Ben graduated Summa Cum Laude from Middlebury College with a BA in Political Science and the highest departmental honors.  He is the co-founder and CEO of Searchlight and currently resides in Washington, D.C.