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Zachary Fryer-Biggs joined Military.com in 2021 as Managing Editor for News, leading a newsroom dedicated to watchdog reporting for the military community. Zach has edited Military.com journalism that has been honored with a Gerald R. Ford Foundation Award for Distinguished Reporting on the National Defense, a Joe Galloway Award, and a James Crawley Award, along with other awards for investigative and feature reporting.
Prior to joining Military.com, Zach spent more than a decade as a national security reporter, including stops as Newsweek’s Pentagon reporter and as an investigative reporter for the Center for Public Integrity. Zach’s first taste of military reporting came in 2006 for a radio piece on the psychological impact of the constant threat from improvised explosive devices on troops fighting in the Iraq War.
His work has appeared in The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Reveal, Wired, The Daily Beast, and other outlets.
Email: Zach.Biggs@Military.com
![](http://images01.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2025-03/va%20debakey%20legend%201200.jpg?itok=FugzVuVV ""The father of modern cardiovascular surgery," Dr. Michael E. DeBakey was a World War II veteran and helped create the modern VA medical system. (Dept. of Veterans Affairs)")
