Dr. Stephen Phillips is a 1992 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy. He served in the U.S. Navy as a Special Operations Officer and Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technician at EOD Mobile Units Six, Eight, and Ten. Steve is the author of "Proximity: A Novel of the Navy's Elite Bomb Squad," "The Recipient's Son," a coming-of-age story set at the U.S. Naval Academy and the forthcoming "A Poisoned Chalice: The U.S. Navy in the Persian Gulf, 1987-1988.

Steve is a lifetime member of Navy and Marine Corps EOD Association (N&MCEODA) and the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW).

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