Mike Mauer, Community Contributor

Michael P. Mauer is an Army veteran of Operation Desert Storm. He won the grand award for best feature article in the VFW National Publications Contest in 2016.

An active free-lance writer for more than 35 years, Mauer won the Army’s highest journalism honor, the Keith L. Ware, in 1991. He was also awarded the Joint Service Commendation Medal by Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf for his actions as a military reporter in Operation Desert Storm. A Life Member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, he was appointed as a VFW National Aide-De-Camp in 2006.

In 2010, Mauer was inducted into the Southwestern Pennsylvania Veterans Hall of Fame. He earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism and communications from Point Park University in 1984.