James Salsman

James was born in January 1975 in Fort Smith Arkansas. Raised mostly by his building contractor father and a not so great stepmother. His father constantly moved around between Arkansas and California. In 1993, he went to live with his biological mother and she changed his life around for the positive. Upon graduation from Broken Arrow Senior High, 2 months later James joined the US Marine Corps. He served at Camp Lejeune and Iwakuni Japan. Highest rank was Sergeant before got out of the Marine Corps. In 1998, he joined the Army National Guard, then went active duty Army. He went to military occupational school (MOS). Upon graduation, he received orders to Fort Bliss in El Paso, TX. He was assigned to an Air Defense Artillery unit, deployed for Iraqi Freedom 2002- May 23 2003. He gained the values of comradery and trusting one another while being deployed in a combat zone. His 4-year obligation ended and got out of the Army. James later joined the Army National Guard again and simultaneously, he attended academics at Park University on Fort Bliss, a satellite campus. Upon graduation, he was ROTC commissioned to Second Lieutenant from Sergeant. Then joined the Army Reserves and was approved after 11 months to go active Reserves. in Served for 2.5 years as a Company Operations Officer. During that time, he was in a major motorcycle wreck where they discovered he had a softball size cancerous tumor growing on his left kidney. The kidney and cancerous tumor surrounding it were successfully removed. He learned that life is too short and to live his life to its fullest by accomplishing all goals he set forth in front of him. While stationed at Bell, he was graced with the opportunity to act on a pilot TV miniseries and that motivated me to pursue acting. Coming off active duty August 2016, James is now in the Army Reserves and study acting very seriously in the 2-year program at Lee Strasberg Institute, and shooting acting gigs. He aspires to be a spokesperson for St Jude's, to travel the world to save the planet giving positive speeches and endangered species from human poaching and work with Leo DiCaprio to achieve that. Other Goals: to work with Martin Scorcese and Michael Bay, Seal Team/CBS, Law and Order LA, NCIS, Fast and Furious Franchise, and HBO's Ballerz Chief Skills: fight skills, athletic skills , speaks Spanish and Tagalog, weapons specialist, military advisor, cancer survivor, Marine, soldier, positive public Speaker, weight lifter, trainer, mentor, singer