Dan Donche is a former TACP in the US Air Force, where he served two deployments to Afghanistan and once to Iraq. He is also a former Special Operations Developer for the USAF where he trained, coached, and mentored candidates for careers in Special Operations (now called Special Warfare). While on active duty, he was a MCMAP combatives instructor for his squadron. He fought for a while as a professional mixed martial artist, was the creator of the esteemed HexCam camouflage pattern, and currently lives in Colorado, where he writes fiction and runs this website.