Jake is a law enforcement officer and former Army Ranger with four deployments to Afghanistan. Continue Reading

Heath served as an infantryman with the 82nd Airborne Division. After deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, Hansen was injured in a parachuting Continue Reading

Jarrod is the author of No Shit Here I Am, served as an infantryman in the U.S. Army’s 10th Mountain and 25th Infantry Divisions from 2000 – 2009 Continue Reading

Clay D is a father and veteran of 5 war zones with 9 combat deployments, 3 brothers KIA, and 1 Divorce. Most of his adult life was spent in the Middle Continue Reading

Nader grew up with a mix of influences. He calls himself “basically a Chicago street thug blended with a border-town Texican and a dash of Madison Continue Reading

Josh is a graduate of Indiana University 06’ where he was commissioned as a United States Army Air Defense Officer after serving as an enlisted 13-F Continue Reading

After graduation from Cornell University with a BS and MEng in Operations Research, Elana Duffy (Lana) worked for a year in civil engineering before Continue Reading

Ben is a former U.S. Army Mountain Infantry Platoon Sergeant and served in domestic and overseas roles from 2001-2018, including, from 2003-2005, as a Continue Reading

Ken was a Professor of Mathematics, a ceramicist, a welder, and an IBMer until downsized in 2000. He taught yoga until COVID-19 decided otherwise. He Continue Reading

Steve has been an educator and an athletic coach for nearly 30 years. For much of that time, he was a successful high school and college football Continue Reading

Wendy is a writer who took a 25+ year detour into the nursing profession.  She is married to an Army veteran who took the same detour.  They have two Continue Reading

Autumn is a recent graduate in English-Literature and lives in Colorado Springs. During her personal time, Autumn likes hanging out with her super Continue Reading