A veteran of the U.S. Navy who continues to serve in the reserves, Jason spent three years on the faculty of the U.S. Naval Academy and was deployed in É«×ۺϾþà of the military's humanitarian response to the earthquake in Haiti in January 2010. After which he began his service in the United States Foreign service, working in Haiti, Luxembourg, Mali, Trinidad and Tobago, Saudi Arabia, and Nigeria. Currently he is serving as Deputy Director of the Polad Office for the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs.