Bryan Suits

Bryan Suits (born 1966) is an American war veteran of three military conflicts in Kuwait, Bosnia, and Iraq, and has been a talk radio host for more than 10 years.

He has hosted talk-shows for radio stations in Seattle, Washington: KIRO (AM) and KVI, and in Los Angeles: KFI AM 640.

Suits was born in Honolulu, Hawaii and lived in Lahaina, Hawaii until he was 12 years old, when his family moved to Washington.

His infantry company's Area of Operational Responsibility included the Tuwaitha nuclear complex (bombed by Israel in May 1981).

Due to delays in replacements, the battalion's deployment was extended to 19 months.

Suits was awarded the Bronze Star Medal and was wounded in action several times.

He was subsequently awarded the Purple Heart.

While serving in Iraq he claims that he met individuals who stated they were involved in the transportation of Iraqi WMDs to Syria.

While in Iraq he occasionally called into the Kirby Wilbur Show and reported on his experiences.

He was also a contributor to the Iraq election log on the BBC news website.

Lieutenant Suits collected rubber boots from his radio show listeners and distributed them to Iraqi children in what became known as "Boots for Suits".

Enlisting in the United States Army Reserve in 1989, he served in Operation Desert Storm as a medic in HHT/2nd Squadron 2nd Armored Cavalry.

In 1992, Suits was called up as a California Army National Guardsman in 4bn 160th Infantry in response to civil unrest following the "Rodney King" verdicts.

In 1998 he deployed as a member of the Oregon Army National Guard to Bosnia as part of SFOR, the NATO mission to Bosnia.

Suits was involved in the ICTY (International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia) investigation of the Croatian militia called "The Jokers."

This work is still classified.

The "Bryan Suits Show" first ran Monday to Friday from 9pm to 1am PT on KIRO (AM) from 1999 to 2002.

Suits then moved to the prime drive time hours of 5am to 9am PT on KVI, following Sean Hannity.

The topics on the show ranged from local news to kicker stories to the War on Terror.

Suits usually employed his sense of humor on all topics.

He referred to the last hour of his show as "The Iraq Block" and devoted it mostly to discussion on the war in Iraq.

It is in this hour that his experience in Iraq helped put some news items in perspective.

In 2002, he attended Officer Candidate School and received his commission.

Suits was deployed to Iraq in 2003 and returned to KVI in 2005 to continue his show.

Suits reported on his KVI show that during his 2003 Iraq deployment, he received an injury to his groin area from a roadside improvised explosive device and now suffers from bladder pain syndrome.

On March 6, 2003, an Iraqi caller named "Mohammed" confronted United for Peace and Justice spokesperson Andrea Buffa on Suits' show.

The clip was posted on the KVI website and quickly circulated around the Internet.

Upon his arrival back from his tour of duty in Iraq, he claimed that his ballot for the November 2004 general election, which he said was mailed to his wife from Iraq, was never counted.

His claim became part of the public debate surrounding the contested 2004 Washington gubernatorial election.

During the peak of the Tea Party movement, Suits spoke to Tea Party rallies as both a radio host and a soldier with experience in the War on Terror.

He was heard weekday afternoons on KOGO-AM/FM in San Diego in 2011–12 and Saturday evenings on KFI from 2009 to November 2013.

Suits did a brief Monday - Friday stint on KABC, Los Angeles in the 9am – 12noon slot beginning in 2014.

However, he ultimately was summoned back to KFI hosting Saturday evening program "Dark Secret Place", Sunday evening program "Super Hyper Local Sunday"a and served as the official military and tactical sounding board for other KFI shows for related news.

In July 2021, Suits announced that he would be leaving KFI.

Six months later, he would return to Seattle to host morning show, "The Bryan Suits Show" on KTTH AM 770.

Suits is also available through the subscription service Patreon for military and foreign affairs news.

After graduating from Washington State University, Suits became a broker-trainee at Drexel Burnham Lambert.

Suits has one daughter, with his ex-wife Rachel Suits, named Reagan Suits.

AKA his "Varmint."

As a member of C Company, 1st Battalion, 161st Infantry Regiment, Washington Army National Guard he deployed as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom.