Major Chad Lennon

Major Chad Lennon enlisted in the United States Marine Corps and the United States Marine Corps Reserve. An Afghanistan War veteran, Major Lennon works tirelessly to bring awareness to veterans issues and to serve veterans in his local community and beyond.

Major Lennon has served in both the Active and Reserve components of the Marine Corps and was deployed to Afghanistan in 2010.

For his bravery and service to our Nation, Major Lennon earned the Purple Heart and Navy/Marine Corps Achievement Medal. Following his deployment to Afghanistan, he then earned his Doctor of Law degree from the Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center. He also served as Director of the Veterans’ and Servicemembers’ Rights Clinic.

In recent years, Major Lennon has worked to bring awareness to service members’ invisible struggles by testing his own physical limits.

As an advisor to the Bob Feller Act of Valor Award Foundation, Major Lennon is a community athlete for the Semper Fi Fund, an organization assisting injured veterans in all branches of the Armed Forces. Major Lennon raised well over $6,000 for the Fund through his successful 2019 effort to earn the fastest one-mile time pulling a fourhundred-pound chain. This impressive feat earned him a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records.

On September 18, 2021, Major Lennon led fellow Marines, veterans, and friends as he hiked twenty-two miles carrying twenty-two pounds, representing the twenty-two veterans who die by suicide each day.

An outstanding and compassionate advocate for veterans and their families, Major Lennon continues to provide help and assistance to Suffolk County’s veteran population, one of the largest in the Nation, in a number of helpful and meaningful ways.

Major Lennon resides in Rocky Point with his wife and two children.