Dr. Matt Mitchell is the president of Wyoming for Heroes and played a key role in founding the former Jerry Behrens Foundation, helping develop it into the statewide nonprofit it is today. A graduate of the United States Air Force Academy and Harvard Medical School, Dr. Mitchell served 9 years on active duty, including deployments to Iraq and Haiti. His military career also took him to France, where he completed the French military parachute course, and to the US Naval Diving & Salvage Training Center, where he became a diving medical officer. In his free time, Dr. Mitchell enjoys perfecting his golf swing and playing the bagpipes with the Lander Pipe Band!