Ted Bennett was commissioned in the Navy in May 1986.  After his flight training in Florida and California, he and his wife Lisa were sent to a base near Tokyo, where Ted was assigned as a Naval Flight Officer aboard the USS Midway.  During his time on the Midway, Ted flew missions in support of security during the 1988 Seoul Olympics, spent hundreds of hours on Cold War missions off the coast of the Soviet Far East, China, and Vietnam, protected neutral ships during the Iran-Iraq war, and flew 24 combat missions during the Gulf War.  In 1991, Ted took orders to NATO’s military headquarters in Belgium, where Ted, Lisa, and later, baby Timothy, lived in a tiny farming village.  From there, Ted flew missions in support of various NATO operations, including peacekeeping operations in the former Yugoslavia during its civil war.  He resigned his commission in 1993 to attend law school.

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Greg Bowman was commissioned in the United States Navy in 1990 through the Navy ROTC program at Duke University, serving 14 years on active duty and later retiring from the U.S. Naval Reserve after 20 years of total service.  As a submarine officer, Greg served on the Los Angeles-class nuclear-powered fast-attack submarine USS TOPEKA (SSN-754) and in the Strategic Plans and Policy Directive (J-5) of the Joint Staff in Washington, D.C.  After attending law school, Greg served as a Navy judge advocate gaining experience prosecuting criminal cases before juries, litigating civil cases, and conducting complex internal investigations, including serving as counsel to a 29-member commission appointed by the Secretary of Defense to investigate a terrorist attack against the USS Cole in October 2000, and serving on a commission convened to review the Navy’s handling of espionage cases.

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When he was 17, Bill Burke enlisted in the Air Force as a cadet in the Reserve Officer Training Corps at Princeton University.  He was commissioned in 1991 and then attended law school at the University of Virginia while a member of the Air Force reserve.  After law school, he served on active duty from 1995-2000 as a Captain in the Air Force Judge Advocate General’s Department.  His first assignment was at Bolling Air Force Base in Washington, D.C., home of the 11th Wing, where he was a prosecutor in courts-martial, represented the Air Force in employment litigation, and served as a military aide at the White House.  In 1998, the Air Force reassigned him to Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland, where he was a defense attorney.  In that role, he defended Air Force members in courts-martial, discharge boards, and other adverse proceedings.  In 2000, he left the Air Force and was delighted to join Williams & Connolly, where he is honored to work with many other veterans.

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