1. Ian Fishback was a United States Army officer, who became known after he sent a letter to Senator John McCain of Arizona on September 16,2005, in which Fishback stated his concerns about the continued abuse of prisoners held under the auspices of the Global War on Terror.
Ian Fishback was a 1997 graduate of Newberry High School in Newberry, Michigan, where he played on a football team.
Ian Fishback was admitted to West Point and earned a bachelor of science degree in middle eastern studies in 2001.
In May 2012, Fishback was awarded a master's degree in philosophy and political science at the University of Michigan, writing his master thesis on just war theory.
Ian Fishback served in the United States Army and achieved the rank of major in the United States Army Special Forces.
Ian Fishback served four combat tours in the US Army, two with the 82nd Airborne and two with the Fifth Special Forces Group.
From 2012 to 2015, Ian Fishback served as an instructor at West Point, where he built good rapport with cadets.
Ian Fishback collaborated with Jeff McMahan to create a joint philosophy seminar for West Point cadets and Rutgers philosophy students in 2013.
Ian Fishback returned to Newberry from Sweden and according to his family struggled with depression.
Acquaintances, friends, and family all describe Ian Fishback as experiencing extreme paranoia, suffering from the delusion that the US government was tracking after him for his whistleblower activities.
The report did raise the possibility that the medications Ian Fishback was being treated with could have caused his death, but nothing was settled.
On May 8,2006, Ian Fishback was chosen by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world for taking his stand against torture.
Matthew Harwood, an associate editor at Security Management magazine, wrote in Attitudes Aren't Free: Thinking Deeply About Diversity in the US Armed Forces that Ian Fishback's letter to Senator McCain "is a testament that inside the US military lies redemption".
Two military heroes, my former colleague Senator John McCain and Major Ian Fishback, turned the tide in this effort.