Legion Twelve
Vision. Leadership. Purpose.
A Letter from the Founder
To the reader,
My first few months of college were marked by The Drift. Late nights, wasted hours, endless scrolling — the quiet decay that everyone feels but few name. I knew I needed out of this cycle. I needed to fight back. That is where Legion Twelve began.
The Drift is not harmless. It is the door through which the parasite enters — the vices of distraction, self-indulgence, and unordered desire that slowly carve a man hollow. They etch an evil character upon his soul, one idle hour at a time. And when that rot takes root, a twin danger presents itself: the false gospel that tells young men they can save themselves through politics, pride, or rage. Both are lies. Both destroy culture — and both are destroying young men.
Legion Twelve exists to break that cycle. We train men to master their habits, discipline their bodies, and order their souls under Christ. Through Scripture, combat training, fasting, and brotherhood — we form men who lead in their churches, families, and callings.
This is the purpose of Legion Twelve.
Timete Deum Solum — the motto we strive to live by.
Leadership
Founder & Executive Director
Born and raised in the great Commonwealth of Virginia, Luke is a visionary who has always operated by a code. A former Eagle Scout, fighter, and PLC candidate for the Marine Corps, he is a 2024 graduate of the Forge Leadership Network, a Kehoe Entrepreneurial Fellow, and a Fellow at the Center for Constructive Alternatives. He is a current B.A. candidate at Hillsdale College.
Co-founder & Chief of Staff
Born in Ukraine and forged in the American Midwest, Andriy is a pianist, a chess player, and a dominant boxer who approaches everything as a student first. A Kehoe Entrepreneurial Fellow and Fellow at the Center for Constructive Alternatives, he brings strategic discipline and an unsparing eye to everything Legion Twelve builds. He is a current B.A. candidate at Hillsdale College.
Chief of Strategy
Fred is the kind of man who has done the work with his hands before he ever did it with his mind — a former construction worker, diesel mechanic, and ski instructor who later studied at the University of Michigan and New College, Oxford. A Fellow of the Albertus Magnus Institute and IHS Research Fellow in Political Economy, he is the strategic conscience that keeps Legion Twelve's vision rooted in substance.
