Susan Katz Keating

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About me

Gender Female
Industry Communications or Media
Occupation Journalist
Location Virginia, United States
Introduction Susan Katz Keating is an investigative journalist specializing in national security. A former Washington Times reporter, she is the author of Prisoners of Hope: Exploiting the POW/MIA Myth in America (Random House). A People magazine correspondent, she covers high profile stories, including Paula Broadwell/David Petraeus, the Virginia Tech and Ft. Hood shootings, and the SEAL assault on Osama bin Laden. Her work has appeared in Time, Readers Digest, The New York Times, Air&Space, American Legion, VFW, Soldier of Fortune, and other publications. She has been cited in the New Yorker, the Wall Street Journal, Salon, and other journals. She is a founding trustee for the National Museum of Americans in Wartime, and serves on the board for Cooking With the Troops. She briefly was in the U.S. Women's Army Corps, where she earned her Expert rating on the M-16 rifle. She was editor of the Dixon Tribune newspaper in California. She was a director of the Travis AFB Museum, and served as restoration crew chief on a B-52. She trained at Blackwater. She belongs to the Association of Former Intelligence Officers. She attended the University of California. She lives in Virginia.
Interests Warfare & Warriors, War, WWII, Intelligence, The Collapse of Rome, Literature, American Society, Native American history, Weapons
Favorite Movies Patton, We Were Soldiers, Black Hawk Down, Saving Private Ryan, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Defiance, The Hurt Locker, Rocky, Zoolander, Throw Momma From the Train, Anchor Man