Major Damon Wells is currently attending the Army’s Command and General Staff College in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He has served as the United States Military Academy’s Assistant Course Director for Strength Development, the Officer-in-Charge of the West Point powerlifting team, the strength & conditioning coach for middle distance track, and a combatives and boxing instructor at the United States Military Academy at West Point. He has published numerous fitness articles and was a guest presenter at the 2009 American College of Sports Medicine conference in Seattle. Damon also holds the current Texas APF submasters squat record for the 125 kg weight class (804lbs).  He has a BS in Psychology and an MS in Kinesiology from Texas A&M University. He is a 15 year veteran of the US Army and is currently on active duty. He has served two tours in Iraq for Operation Iraqi Freedom.

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