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Matthew Cox

Matthew Cox has been a defense writer since 1998 and is an associate editor for Military.com.

The bulk of Matthew’s experience comes from working 12 years for Army Times, the largest of the Military Times publications. As a senior staff writer, he reported and wrote investigative stories about the successes and failures of Army weapons development and procurement, body armor testing, camouflage, ammunition and readiness and training issues.

Matthew traveled to Afghanistan and Iraq numerous times from 2002 to 2008, covering Stryker and light infantry platoons in combat.

Matthew also spent four years in the U.S. Army during the second half of the 1980s, serving as an infantryman in the 82nd Airborne Division.