Gordon Dillow

Orange County Register, Reporter / Columnist

About Our Speaker for the April Meeting

Gordon Dillow has spent 27 years in the newspaper business, working as a reporter and/or columnist for a variety of papers, including the Orange County Register, the Los Angeles Times, the Los Angeles Herald Examiner and the San Francisco Examiner. He currently is a columnist for the Register. In 2003 Dillow was an "embedded" reporter for the Register with the 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, an infantry unit that was the first large American ground force to cross into Iraq during the war. Dillow accompanied the Marines all the way from Kuwait to Baghdad. From April-June 2004, Dillow returned for another tour in Iraq with those same Marines while they were performing occupation duty in the Sunni Triangle. Dillow served as a U.S. Army sergeant in Vietnam in 1971, and is a graduate of the University of Montana journalism school. He lives in Seal Beach, California.