About Rob Krott

Rob Krott was raised in McKean County, Pennsylvania, and educated at St. Bonaventure University and Harvard University.

A former US Army officer, he has traveled to over seventy countries and received military awards and decorations from ten foreign governments including Croatia’s Zahvalnica, awarded by the defense minister for combat missions along the Kupa River, and the Spomenicom Domovinskog Rata medal awarded by the Croatian president and personally presented to him by Ivica Racan, the Prime Minister of Croatia.

His exploits in the Balkans and Somalia were published in Save the Last Bullet for Yourself: A Soldier of Fortune in the Balkans and Somalia.

Krott has also served in the field with the Sudanese People’s Liberation Army and the Karen National Liberation Army in Burma.
He is the military affairs correspondent for Small Arms Review and was previously mast-headed as chief foreign correspondent for Soldier of Fortune and as a columnist and foreign correspondent for Behind the Lines: The Journal of US Military Special Operations.

He has been  working in Iraq as a private security contractor since 2003 with breaks for work as a “Risk Management Consultant” with The Discovery Channel; as a SERE-C instructor at Fort Rucker; and as a Socio-Cultural Advisor with Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa, AFRICOM, Camp Lemonier, Djibouti.