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Kenny Bass

Media appearances and press information.

Kenny Bass and Atlas’s story has been documented through national television, public media, documentaries, regional reporting, and public conversations about combat, service dogs, invisible disability, and purpose after war.

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Kenny Bass kneeling beside Atlas on a red carpet in front of a Searching for Home backdrop.

Press materials

Kenny Bass in brief

Kenny Bass is a Marine Corps combat veteran, co-founder of The Battle Buddy Foundation, speaker, author, and photographer. After surviving an IED blast during a counter-ambush patrol in Iraq in 2003, he returned home carrying physical and invisible wounds of war. Years later, his service dog Atlas helped him reenter public life and inspired a mission serving other veterans. Kenny’s current work includes If Not for the Blast, Atlas & Friends, and A Marine’s Disposable War.

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Editorial portrait of Kenny Bass.

Documentary work

Featured excerpt · 2015

Searching for Home: Coming Back From War

Kenny and Atlas appear in this documentary about the lasting effects of war and the search for healing after combat. PBS SoCal hosts a 6-minute, 4-second excerpt in which Kenny discusses Iraq and what led him to create The Battle Buddy Foundation.

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Official clip

From War to Wisdom

Kenny appeared as himself in a documentary following Marines seeking purpose after war.

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Selected television appearances

  • Variety Salute to Service

    November 11, 2022

    Kenny was featured in Variety Salute to Service, a HISTORY and Variety television special hosted by Seth Meyers.

  • CBS Los Angeles / KCAL9 — Veterans’ Voices

    July 12, 2022

    The Battle Buddy Foundation was featured in CBS Los Angeles/KCAL9’s Veterans’ Voices.

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  • The T.D. Jakes Show

    February 21, 2017

    Kenny and Atlas appeared on The T.D. Jakes Show in a nationally televised segment.

  • New Mexico PBS — ¡COLORES!

    November 2016

    Kenny appeared with Searching for Home director Eric Christiansen on a special Veterans Day edition of New Mexico PBS’s ¡COLORES!.

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  • 2017 Hero Dog Awards media tour

    A national-media tour connected to the televised Hero Dog Awards included TODAY on October 23, 2017; Fox & Friends and Fox Business’s Varney & Co. on October 24; and the Hallmark Hero Dog Awards broadcast on October 25.

Selected reporting and regional coverage

  • FOX19 / WXIX Cincinnati

    Kenny and Atlas were featured in early FOX19 coverage about PTSD, service-dog tasks, and the creation of The Battle Buddy Foundation.

    View the surviving TBBF archive

  • WHIO

    WHIO reported on Atlas’s 2017 American Humane Service Dog of the Year recognition and Kenny’s role as Atlas’s handler.

  • Dayton Daily News / Journal-News

    November 11, 2025

    A regional profile connected Atlas, The Battle Buddy Foundation, Atlas & Friends, and Kenny’s current chapter.

  • Wiregrass / WDHN

    May 30, 2022

    Kenny delivered the keynote address at the Wiregrass Memorial Day ceremony in Dothan, Alabama, with surviving regional television coverage.

Current story and interview angles

  • If Not for the Blast — a memoir about war, invisible injury, identity, service, and the unexpected life built from circumstances Kenny never would have chosen.
  • Atlas & Friends — children’s literacy, disability awareness, working-dog distinctions, empathy, and school outreach.
  • A Marine’s Disposable War — disposable-camera photographs from Iraq reconsidered more than twenty years later.
  • Service dogs and invisible disability — task-trained assistance, public access, independence, cognitive load, and respectful public understanding.
  • Starting before certainty — building a nonprofit, books, art, and photography without beginning as an expert.
  • Atlas’s legacy and Arlo’s distinct current role—his own journey, personality, purpose, and promise.

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Speaking and public-event photo archive

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Kenny Bass speaking at a microphone on the American Humane Hero Dog Awards stage with Atlas lying beside him.
Kenny and Atlas onstage at the American Humane Hero Dog Awards.
Kenny Bass speaking from a formal podium while Atlas rests beside him in his service-dog vest.
Kenny speaking at a formal veterans event with Atlas beside the podium.
Kenny Bass speaking into a microphone at an outdoor Battle Buddy event with Atlas beside him.
Kenny and Atlas during a Battle Buddy community event.
Kenny Bass and Atlas seen from the stage while speaking to a large group of students seated in a school gymnasium.
Kenny and Atlas addressing a school audience.

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