Amy Forsythe
Amy Forsythe is an award-winning military journalist who served five combat tours supporting Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom and has been on assignment for several other overseas missions. Amy started her career as a U.S. Marine combat correspondent and currently serves as Public Affairs Officer in the U.S. Navy Reserve. Her imagery taken while covering military operations around the world has been featured in numerous international and national media outlets through the years and continues to be used for historical purposes.
Her book “Heroes Live Here” started as a passion project to showcase the memorials and markers on Camp Pendleton and it turned into a collaborative work of art that honors our fallen heroes of the post-9/11 generation. Amy was first stationed at Camp Pendleton, California, in 1995 and still has strong ties to the base and surrounding communities. She's involved in supporting various veteran service organizations in San Diego County and around the country.
She’s the host of the award-winning Tango Alpha Lima & Be The One podcast sponsored by The American Legion and regularly hosts and reports for local television programming and special events. She was Inducted into the San Diego County Women’s Hall of Fame in the ‘Historian’ category in 2023 and was named San Diego Business Journal’s Women of Influence Top 50 Over 50 in 2024.
Here's my website: www.heroeslivehere.com
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amyforsythe/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/amyforsythe760/
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