Mary Brownlee

Mary Brownlee has been an army logistics officer for 18 years with six years in active duty and currently in reserves. She has done two deployments to Iraq. The first was to Anbar province as a platoon leader for 15 months during the surge of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF), from June 2007 to October 2008. The second tour was as a forward support company commander attached to a combined arms battalion beginning in September 2010, ending that tour in October of 2011 as the brigade logistics planner for Operation New Dawn (OND) in order to shut down the Iraq theater of operations. She is the recipient of two bronze stars.

"I joined flotilla for so many reasons. I believe in its mission. I can be of service in this capacity. I have a moral obligation as someone who has been used as a gangster of imperialism to now work against it. I am a mother who leads by example. My sons know that we stand up against bullies; we stand with the oppressed." -Mary Brownlee