Eric Greitens

Eric Greitens may be the most whiplash-inducing resume I have come across: Navy SEAL, Bronze Star, Purple Heart, Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, then governor of Missouri. That is an almost cinematic arc, and his abrupt 2018 resignation gives it a tragic third act. I find him hard to judge precisely because the peaks and the fall are both so steep. What interests me less is the politics and more the question underneath: what drives a person to keep scaling new summits, from battlefield to statehouse to the page? I would read his own account before trusting anyone else's.

Name (English)

Eric Greitens

Name (Japanese)

エリック・グライテンズ

Reading

えりっく・ぐらいてんず

Born

April 10, 1974 (age 52)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Tiger

Origin

St. Louis, Missouri, United States

Occupation

politician / military officer / writer / governor / author

High school

Parkway North High School

University

Duke University

Awards & achievements

• Bronze Star Medal
• Purple Heart
• 2005 White House Fellows
• 1996 Rhodes Scholarship

• Official sitehttps://www.ericgreitens.com
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/ericgreitens/
• Xhttps://x.com/EricGreitens
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%20Greitens
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5386615

Tags

• Missouri
• politician
• military officer
• writer

Last updated

2026-06-21

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.