Career
Hunt served in the United States. Air Force from 1997 to 2005. Shortly after Hunt left military service he started Hunt Family Insurance Agency, a small business located in Lakewood, Washington. In 2010 Hunt sought a position on the Orting City Council.
The following year, Hunt ran unopposed to retain his seat.
Hunt served as the chair for the Transportation Committee and co-chair for Public Safety. Hunt was appointed to the state legislature on January 17, 2014 by the Thurston County Board of Commissioners and Pierce County County Council, despite being the second choice of the Republican Precinct Committee Officers from the district.
Hunt served on the House Appropriations Committee, Business and Financial Services and was the Assistant Ranking on the Labor Committee. Military service controversy
In January 2015, the Seattle Times reported that Hunt had repeatedly posted a doctored photo on social media, purporting to show him after a 2005 mortar attack.
In the ensuing controversy, Hunt released both a Doctor of Divinity-214 and NGB-22, however neither document showed he served in Iraq or Afghanistan or earned any of the medals he had since deleted from his online biographies.
Hunt"s Doctor of Divinity-214 stated he had been activated in support of Operation Noble Eagle, seemingly contradicting his claims to the Seattle Times that he had deployed to Afghanistan in October 2001 for "three or four weeks". Other claims surfaced of Hunt claiming to have being shot in Iraq, and stabbed in Afghanistan despite no records of combat wounds or deployments to either country. On February 2, 2016, Hunt announced his immediate resignation.
