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Kenny Bass

Marine Corps Combat VeteranFounderSpeakerAuthorPhotographer

Kenny Bass

The pain happened.
What it becomes is still up to you.

Marine Corps combat veteran, co-founder of The Battle Buddy Foundation, speaker, author, and photographer. The work is about what trauma takes, what service restores, and what people choose to build afterward.

Read Kenny’s Story

Black-and-white editorial portrait of Kenny Bass seated in a suit and patterned shirt.

What brought you here?

  • Speaking

    Bring the story into the room.

    Kenny Bass speaking at a podium with a microphone at a veterans event, Atlas beside him.

    Keynotes and conversations on service, leadership, invisible disability, purpose, and rebuilding after life changes.

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  • Books

    Follow what is being built next.

    Concept cover mockup for the in-development memoir If Not for the Blast.Concept artwork for the in-development illustrated project Atlas & Friends.

    If Not for the Blast and Atlas & Friends are both in development. Follow their progress, read project updates, and support the work still being completed.

    Explore the Books

  • Photography

    See A Marine’s Disposable War.

    Spent — disposable-camera photograph made by Kenny Bass during the 2003 Iraq War.

    Disposable-camera photographs made during the 2003 Iraq War and reconsidered more than two decades later as memory, evidence, and art.

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  • Media and professional contact

    Find the right professional path.

    Kenny Bass with Atlas, his German Shepherd service dog, on a red carpet at a media event.

    Selected media and documentary work, plus a direct route for interviews, publishing, exhibitions, film, partnerships, and other professional inquiries.

    Professional Contact

One leash became a lifeline.
The lifeline became a mission.

In 2003, Kenny served with Marine infantry during the Iraq War. During a counter-ambush patrol, his Humvee was struck by an IED, and he returned home carrying physical and invisible wounds he did not yet understand.

Years later, Atlas—a German Shepherd service dog—helped Kenny reenter public life. That partnership helped lead to the co-founding of The Battle Buddy Foundation, and the work now extends into speaking, books, and photography.

Read Kenny’s Story

Portrait of Atlas, Kenny Bass’s German Shepherd service dog, photographed at a training facility.

Selected appearances and documentary work

Featured through TODAY, Fox & Friends, The T.D. Jakes Show, PBS, CBS Los Angeles/KCAL9, Hallmark, HISTORY, and Variety, and the documentaries Searching for Home: Coming Back From War and From War to Wisdom.

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Have a professional inquiry?

Reach Kenny about media and interviews, publishing, speaking questions not answered elsewhere, exhibitions, film and documentary work, partnerships, and other appropriate opportunities.

Professional Contact