Michael Yon is an American writer and photographer.
He served in the Special Forces in the early 1980s, and he became a writer in the mid 1990s.
He focused on military writing after the invasion of Iraq.
Yon has been embedded on numerous occasions with American and British troops in Iraq, most prominently a deployment with the 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment (Deuce Four) of the 25th Infantry Division in Mosul, Iraq that ended in September 2005