Mike is the editor-in-chief of The Havok Journal and a retired U.S. Army major and Air Force veteran. He served 20 years on active duty across both branches, led surgical teams as an operating room officer-in-charge, later held clinical, administrative, and inspector general roles, and retired in 2019. A nurse with 23 years of combined civilian and military experience, including two Iraq deployments, he writes from a grounded perspective shaped by military service, medicine, war, and family. He holds a bachelor’s degree in nursing from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and a master’s degree in military history from Norwich University.
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