I served on the USS Plunger (SSN-595) and ComSubPac (Commander Submarine Pacific) Communications as a radioman in the United States nuclear submarine force from 1968 to 1972. I spent over two decades as a search-and-rescue mission pilot and ground team leader, Squadron Commander and Group Commander with the Civil Air Patrol — the Air Force auxiliary that conducts 90% of inland search and rescue missions in the U.S. and saves over 100 lives a year.

I served on the USS Plunger (SSN-595) and ComSubPac (Commander Submarine Pacific) Communications as a radioman in the United States nuclear submarine force from 1968 to 1972. I spent over two decades as a search-and-rescue mission pilot and ground team leader, Squadron Commander and Group Commander with the Civil Air Patrol — the Air Force auxiliary that conducts 90% of inland search and rescue missions in the U.S. and saves over 100 lives a year. I'm a chiropractor in private practice in St. Johns, Michigan since 1980, and I've been programming since the DOS era — I currently develop and publish puzzle games on Steam through my company Simple Software Solutions. My Survive! sci-fi series draws on all of it — the military discipline, the survival training, the problem-solving mindset. These are stories about skilled people pushed far beyond their training, using ingenuity and grit to stay alive when everything goes wrong, whether it's on a dead spaceship, an alien world 12 light-years from Earth, or fighting for the survival of our way of life in this galaxy. No magic. No superheroes. Just people figuring it out.