James Brobyn, a recipient of the Purple Heart, recalls war through olfaction
James Brobyn
About James Brobyn
James Brobyn is Executive Director of the Travis Manion Foundation, which assists veterans and families of fallen service members. He still serves as Vice President of the Naval Academy Class of 2004. A mustang, James was an enlisted Marine for several years prior to his admission to the U.S. Naval Academy and being commissioned as a Second Lieutenant. He subsequently served two combat deployments in Western Al-Anbar Province, Iraq as an infantryman with Third Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion – first as a platoon commander and then as the Executive Officer of Apache Company. James received a Purple Heart after he was wounded in an IED attack during his first deployment.