Eric Greitens is a nonprofit leader, author, speaker and a United States Navy SEAL

United States Navy SEALs

The United States Navy's Sea, Air and Land Teams, commonly known as Navy SEALs, are the U.S. Navy's principal special operations force and a part of the Naval Special Warfare Command as well as the maritime component of the United States Special Operations Command.The acronym is derived from their...

, who lives in St. Louis, Missouri. He is also the CEO of the veterans organization The Mission Continues.
Eric Greitens was born and raised in Missouri

Missouri

Missouri is a US state located in the Midwestern United States, bordered by Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska. With a 2010 population of 5,988,927, Missouri is the 18th most populous state in the nation and the fifth most populous in the Midwest. It...

 where he attended Parkway North High School

Parkway North High School

Parkway North High School is a coeducational public secondary school in Unincorporated St. Louis County, Missouri, United States. The school is one of five high schools in the Parkway School District and enrolls 1,445 students in grades 9-12. Its mascot is the Viking...

. Greitens was named a member of the 1995 USA Today All-USA Academic Team. He was an Angier B. Duke Scholar at Duke University

Duke University

Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco industrialist James B...

 where he studied ethics, philosophy, and public policy.