WHO IS EVANGELO "VANN" MORRIS?

Evangelo "Vann" Morris is a prior enlisted Lieutenant Commander (LCDR), US Navy, Retired, having served in the military for 25 years. He grew up in the small village of Folsom, LA and began his naval career as an enlisted Sailor onboard ballistic missile nuclear powered submarines, where he received training on nuclear propulsion and advanced thermonuclear weapons. After graduating college, the U.S. Navy commissioned him as an Ensign in the Surface Warfare Officer (SWO) community, where he lead Visit, Board, Search, and Seizure (VBSS) teams in the Arabian Gulf and the Caribbean Sea. His VBSS team seized 14 metric tons of pure cocaine in a single Colombian drug raid, which was a at the time, a maritime world record.

Throughout his naval career, he has visited 45 countries and deployed while onboard aircraft carriers, cruisers, destroyers, frigates, amphibs, and submarines. His final three shore tours were the Pentagon in D.C., 82nd Airborne Division in Bagram, Afghanistan, and U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) in Tampa. His final three Operational duties were Combat Systems Officer, Anti-Terrorism Officer, and Tactical Action Officer all onboard the guided missile destroyer USS McCAMPBELL (DDG 85). 

After retiring in 2014, he remained at SOCOM as an Information Operations (IO) Subject Matter Expert (SME) in support of major geographic (combatant) commands in select continents. As an IO SME, he coaches, teaches, and mentors in the field of Psychological Operations, Military Deception, OPSEC, Electronic Warfare, Social Media, Public Affairs, and Key Leadership Engagements.