David Philipps is a features writer for the "Colorado Springs Gazette" whose articles have also appeared in the "Los Angeles Times", the "Chicago Tribune, The Philadelphia Inquirer", and" The Seattle Times, "among others. His coverage of the violence at Fort Carson won him the Livingston Prize for National Reporting and he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize." Lethal Warriors" was a finalist for the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award. He lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado.