Tony is a Utah native, born and raised in the Salt Lake valley. He attended Bingham High School, where after graduation he enlisted into the U.S. Army as an Infantryman. He was initially stationed to Ft. Wainwright, Alaska, where his new unit was deploying to Mosul, Iraq. After a 16 month deployment, he came down on orders to FT. Riley, Kansas in 2007. That is where he met and married his wife Stacy. After a year in Kansas, he reenlisted to go back to Alaska. He did two more deployments to both Iraq and Afghanistan respectively. In 2012, after his last deployment, he was diagnosed with a herniated disc at his L5-S1 vertebra. After surgery, he was functionally unfit for military duty. He was honorably discharged in October of 2012 and set out to begin his civilian life again. Tony is currently a Political Science major at UVU, working towards a Bachelor’s of Arts in World Politics. He enjoys fly fishing, backpacking, building truck motors, and trying all of the local restaurants and coffee shops he can find.