<span class="vcard">Lucas Schleusener</span>

Lucas Schleusener

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Lucas Schleusener (@OutinNatsec) is a Co-Founder and the President of Out in National Security. He served as a speechwriter to Secretaries of Defense Panetta, Hagel, and Carter from 2012 to 2017. Previous to this, he worked in the White House Office of Presidential Personnel from 2011 to 2012. He worked on President Obama’s campaign in 2008. He is a Security Fellow at the Truman National Security Project.

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Silhouettes of U.S. Army soldiers from the 2-82 Field Artillery, 3rd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, walk to where they will board buses to fly home to Fort Hood, Texas after being one of the last American combat units to exit from Iraq on December 15, 2011 at Camp Virginia, near Kuwait City, Kuwait.

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