Terminal Lance

Maximilian Uriarte is an infantry Marine and Iraq veteran and creator of the hit comic strip "Terminal Lance." He enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in 2006 at the age of 19 and served for four years. During his first deployment to Iraq in 2007 he served as an MRAP turret gunner and dismount of India Company's "Jump" platoon in the Zaidon region southeast of Fallujah. In 2009 he was deployed to Iraq again as a billeted Combat Photographer and Combat Artist. In 2010 he created the popular comic strip "Terminal Lance" while still on active duty. The strip is now published in The Marine Corps Times and has grown immensely in popularity, with 450,000 Facebook followers and one million unique hits per month.

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