Andrew Ledford is a United States Navy SEAL. Ledford graduated from the United States Naval Academy and had served in the United States Marine Corps prior to becoming a SEAL. On November 4, 2003, while serving in Iraq, Ledford was a lieutenant in command of a special unit of SEALs tasked with arresting suspected resistance fighters. They arrested Iraqi Manadel al-Jamadi. According to later court-martial testimony, on their way to deliver al-Jamadi to interrogators at Abu Ghraib prison they allegedly beat al-Jamadil.