As an Army captain from 2004-2009, Jed Richard led an Airborne Infantry unit that secured populations in areas as large as 50-by-50 kilometers in eastern Afghanistan. When fighting the Taliban and Al-Qaeda made it too dangerous for engineering units to operate, Richard was assigned secondary engineering and contracting duties.
The West Point graduate with construction in his DNA (his father and grandfather owned construction companies) helped plan and build facilities that included local district...