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6 FALL 2025 Military Key Costumer and Military Key Costumer and Author Harlan Glenn Author Harlan Glenn television productions as not only as a Key Military Costumer and Costume Designer but also as a military technical advisor. His credits include Midway (2018), NCIS (2018), Moonfall (2020), Homeland (2020), Emancipation (2022), and Bass Reeves (2023). A Military Key Costumer does research, works with manufacturers, pulls or purchases available stock or hero pieces to use as templates and patterns for replication when hundreds of recreations are needed. For example: 1941 Afrika Korps uniforms or 2004 Invasion of Iraq or 1863 Civil War armies, both sides, regulars and volunteers. The Military Key Costumer is present at all cast, stunt, and BG fittings, overseeing the created looks to maintain consistency, especially for period looks. The Key is there in the wee hours to get the armies dressed on set and once established on camera, returns to continue work with the Costume Department on fittings, manufacturing, ordering, and researching for scenes to come. His work on Emancipation illustrates the level of detail that goes into creating an historically accurate on-screen army. This Civil War epic required many of the uniforms for the 700+ soldiers to be recreated as few period pieces survive. Costume Designer Francine Tanchuck and Glenn (who served as military technical advisor for this film) shared a vision for a gritty and "time machine perfect" look. Glenn's research for the two armies involved months of digging through thousands of tintype photographs at the Library of Congress and private P I N T O P E N By Wendy Gough Soroka Harlan Glenn is a Men's Finished Costumer specializing in military costumes, and the author of several books on military costuming. Raised by WWII and Korean War veterans (British and American family members), Glenn grew up on military installations in the Far East, North Africa, Europe, and stateside. He's been keen on military uniforms, equipment, and history since childhood. He began interviewing veterans and survivors at about the age of 8, asking in-depth questions that reflected his observations and knowledge of their service. This passion for military history and interviewing the veterans led him to travel across the country and the globe from the early 1990s to 2012, conducting interviews with WWII marines who had been to Iwo Jima, Saipan, and Peleliu; as well as Tarawa to Burma Railway survivors; WWII British Commandos; and Polish Paratroopers. These interviews were featured in free- standing pieces, series segments and feature films for HBO, History Channel, Military Channel, and Harlan Glenn landing in O'ahu after a 90-day stint in Betio, Tarawa in 2012. Discovery Channel. "After most any on-camera interview, I felt compelled to tell their story, to bring to light and share the deeds of these incredible men who were not long left for this world." Glenn worked from 2009-2013 as a missing in action (MIA) search and recovery specialist with groups like the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) and History Flight (a private all volunteer organization) to help search for and recover the lost remains of fallen American servicemen. He began as an artifact specialist, and later worked in the field labs assisting Dr. Arpad Vass in the cleaning and identification of remains and personal items found. They covered WWII sites in NW Europe (Normandy, France, and The Ardennes in Belgium) and focused on a unique island in the South Pacific, which had some 500 unrecovered MIAs. In 2013, Glenn returned from overseas to be a full-time single dad of two children. Parenting responsibilities meant he could not return to his overseas work. "I thought, 'Hey, I know uniforms. Maybe I could make uniforms for the movies.' I drove over to Western Costumes with my three books on WWII Marine Corps uniforms and equipment under my arm and said to both Frank [Allegro] and Eddie [Marks], 'I wrote these books, do you need a Military Costumer?' Eddie hired me on the spot and told me to report in two weeks. I got my days and became an official 705 Costumer." Glenn's books have gotten him onto a number of feature films and