Joined the army at the age of seventeen, serving in the infantry for
six years. The then served as a platoon leader in the Rangers for two
years, before being selected for Delta Force selection. After having
passed the grueling process, where only 12 out of the original 163 were
assigned to the outfit, he spent 8 years in the covert counter-terror
unit. He served at Desert-One, the failed hostage-rescue atempt in Iran
in 1980. He served as a bodyguard fo the U.S ambassador to Beirut, in
1981. He participated in the war on Grenada and in a number of covert
missions in South and Central America, Africa and the Middle East. He
was action during the Houduran-Nicaraguan conflict, he trained South
Korean and Egyptian anti-terror forces and he responded to more than
two dozen airplane high-jackings. After having been the youngest man
ever to be promoted to Sergeant Major he left Delta for the 193rd
Infantry Brigade. He later fought in Operation Just Cause, the 1989
invasion of Panama.