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The Tennessee Eagle Forum Foundation invites you to join us for the "On Eagle's Wings 2023 Conference and Banquet" on Saturday, October 21st at the Embassy Suites Hotel Franklin-Cool Springs. On Eagle's Wings 2023 will feature 12 of the most widely respected speakers addressing some of the most pivotal issues facing our nation today. From the crisis at the border to the waning influence of America around the world, to the impact of failed economic policy at the kitchen table to the cultural chaos being unleashed by the Left, there is a movement afoot meant to uproot and overthrow the traditional, conservative way of American life. We promise you will be informed and inspired by the platform of guests we have assembled.
So make plans to join us on Saturday, October 21st to hear 12 incredible speakers addressing 12 vitally important issues, all in one incredible day!
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Banquet Featured Speaker Mark Morgan | Heritage Foundation Fellow on Election Law Reform on “Why it Matters
– The Worst Border Security Crisis in Our Lifetime”
Mark Morgan joined The Heritage Foundation as a Visiting Fellow in February 2021 after serving as Acting Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection in the Trump administration. He brings more than 30 years of law enforcement experience to Heritage. In his role as a Visiting Fellow, Mark works on border, immigration, and public safety policies as well as issues related to asylum and China. He will be addressing On Eagle’s Wings on the national border crisis facing America in his speech entitled, “Why it Matters – The Worst Border Security Crisis in Our Lifetime”.
Lacey Mase | Chief Deputy TN Attorney General on “The Devastation of Fentanyl in TN”
Lacey Mase | In September 2022, Tennessee’s 28th Attorney General and Reporter, Jonathan Skrmetti, appointed Lacey Mase as his Chief Deputy. In this executive role, Lacey oversees the Office’s legal work, which encompasses a fascinating array of complex civil, criminal, transactional, and regulatory matters. Before becoming Chief Deputy, Lacey was the Deputy Attorney General for the Health Care Division and Counsel to the Attorney General. She joined the Office in January 2021 as Executive Counsel and facilitated executive decision making. She also specialized in implementing workflow enhancements and oversight-improvement projects. Prior to serving the State of Tennessee, Lacey spent over nine years at the Texas Attorney General’s Office where she excelled as a civil litigator and served in various executive leadership positions.
A Texas native, Lacey graduated from Baylor University School of Law and the University of Texas at Austin .Before pursuing her legal career, she taught first-grade in Austin, Texas. Lacey and her husband, Seth, live in Franklin, Tennessee, with their two precious boys, Mitchell (13) and Luke (8). They are members of Christ Presbyterian Church, Cool Springs.
Dakota Wood | Heritage Foundation on “America and the
World: Challenges and Opportunities at Home and Abroad’?”
Dakota L. Wood, who served America for two decades in the U.S. Marine Corps, is the senior research fellow for Defense Programs.
Wood’s research and writing focus on programs, capabilities, operational concepts, and strategies of the U.S. Department of Defense and military services to assess their utility in ensuring the United States has the ability to protect and promote its critical national security interests. Mr. Wood originated and serves as the editor for Heritage’s “Index of U.S. Military Strength,” the only annual assessment available to the public of the status of America’s military and its ability to carry out its core functions.
Wood retired from the U.S. Marine Corps as a Lieutenant Colonel in 2005. During his service as a Marine, he served with a variety of operational units and in various high-level staff assignments. He participated in the planning and execution of operations around the world to include Operation Enduring Freedom, when he served as a lead operational/logistics planner for U.S. Central Command during the initial operational response to the attacks of Sept 11, 2001, and then as a by-name request in late 2002 to augment and lead operational analysis and logistics planning and execution efforts in support of Marine Corps combat forces for the invasion phase of Operation Iraqi Freedom to depose Saddam Hussein.
Mr. Wood also served as a strategic analyst for the Commandant of the Marine Corps and, later, while assigned to the Office of Net Assessment, the Secretary of Defense’s internal “think tank,” where he participated in a range of comparative analyses of military, technological, political, economic, and other factors governing the relative military capabilities of nations, with a specific focus on identifying emerging or potential threats and opportunities for the United States.
Following retirement in 2005, Mr. Wood helped to organize and operationalize the National Biosurveillance Integration System, a Department of Homeland Security effort intended to provide national leadership with the earliest indications of a potential biological threat to the United States.
From 2006 to 2011, Mr. Wood served as a Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments where he organized or materially contributed to numerous seminar-style wargames conducted for various Department of Defense sponsors as well as authoring papers on a diverse array of topics that included: conventional operations against a nuclear-armed adversary; US response options to the imminent failure of a large state; the operational challenges of a protracted global irregular warfare (IW) campaign; the many implications of the proliferation of advanced technologies and weapons; evolving security challenges within the Western Hemisphere; and the development of transformation strategies to improve the ability of the US military to protect the US and its interests.
Before joining Heritage, Mr. Wood served as the Strategist for the U.S. Marine Corps’ Special Operations Command. In this capacity, Mr. Wood was responsible for advising the Commander on strategic level guidance, policies, and operational concepts effecting the future employment of MARSOC forces, personally facilitated the development of a new concept for the integration of operational capabilities of special operations forces and forward-deployed conventional forces, and helped shape MARSOC’s understanding and explanation of the utility of Marine Corps special operations forces in support of national security interests.
His professional and personal travels over nearly four decades have taken him to over fifty countries on five continents and transit through many of the world’s oceans and seas, experiences that included multiple deployments to Asia and the Mediterranean region, NATO support operations in the Balkans, and contingency operations in W. Africa, along with numerous conferences, symposia, and war games.
Mr. Wood is a consistent contributor to the news media, consulted on a wide range of national security and defense matters by a number of national and international outlets. He has also provided expert testimony to the U.S. Congress and has been consulted by the Government Accounting Office (GAO), Congressional Research Service (CRS), and the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).
Wood graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy with a degree in oceanography. He was named a distinguished graduate for his work in earning a master’s degree in national security and strategic studies from the College of Naval Command and Staff, U.S. Naval War College. He was also recognized for meritorious distinction by the Marine Corps’ School of Advanced Warfighting.
Wood and his wife, Dixie, have three grown children.
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