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#VETERANOFTHEDAY MARINE CORPS VETERAN MICHAEL JOSEPH ZACCHEA

News Sections: Veteran of the Day

Published On: June 3rd, 2022|563 words|1.9 min read|

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Marine Corps Veteran Michael Joseph Zacchea is today’s Veteran of the Day.

Michael Joseph Zacchea was born in Flushing, New York, in 1968. He came from a
military family, where both his father and grandfather were Marines, as were
many of their friends. While growing up, the young Zacchea would listen as his
family and friends shared stories about serving in the Marine Corps.He attended
the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, where he received a bachelor’s degree
in the classics. He later earned a master’s degree in business from Hawaii
Pacific University.

Zacchea enlisted in the Marine Corps two weeks after his 17th birthday and was
commissioned a second lieutenant in 1990. He was deployed to Somalia and Haiti,
and served as a recruiter, an artillery commander and a battalion assistant
operations officer. In March 2004, having been promoted to major, Zacchea
deployed for Operation Iraqi Freedom II as an American military advisor. Over
the following months, he trained and led his battalion in combat.

In late 2004, Zacchea’s battalion fought in Operation Phantom Fury in Fallujah.
He was wounded by a blast from a rocket-propelled grenade but refused to be
evacuated, not wanting to leave his men behind. He suffered a traumatic brain
injury and was later medically retired from the Marine Corps.

Zacchea’s first civilian employment was a desk job at a Wall Street firm, but he
was unhappy with the work and began studying part-time at the University of
Connecticut, earning a master’s degree in business administration. While
attending graduate school, Zacchea learned about the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp
for Veterans (EBV), a successful program based at Syracuse University in New
York that was designed to help Veterans and their families start their own
businesses. He duplicated their approach and founded an EBV program at the
University of Connecticut. Since 2009, this program has helped Veterans to
launch more than 150 businesses and over 400 jobs.

“The military is much more entrepreneurial than people think,” Zacchea said in a
2021 interview with Forbes. “Especially small-unit leaders in the military who
are essentially running a small business.”

Zacchea medically retired from the Marine Corps at the rank of lieutenant
colonel. He received many honors, including two Bronze Stars for Valor, a Purple
Heart, a Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal, a Combat Action Ribbon and an
Iraq Campaign Medal. To date, Zacchea is the only American to have received the
Order of the Lion of Babylon award from the government of Iraq.

Zacchea died on April 21, 2022, at the age of 53.

We honor his service.

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Do you want to light up the face of a special Veteran? Have you been wondering
how to tell your Veteran they are special to you? VA’s #VeteranOfTheDay social
media feature is an opportunity to highlight your Veteran and his/her service.

It’s easy to nominate a Veteran. Visit our blog post about nominating to learn
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VETERANS HISTORY PROJECT

This #VeteranOfTheDay profile was created with interviews submitted to the
Veterans History Project. The project collects, preserves, and makes accessible
the personal accounts of American war Veterans so that future generations may
hear directly from Veterans and better understand the realities of war. Find out
more at http://www.loc.gov/vets/.

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Writer: Stephen Hill

Editors: Theresa Lyon, Alexandra Kaiser

Researcher: Giacomo Ferrari

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