1990, having served at every level from private soldier, to company commander to joint task force. Historian He earned his MA in History at the University of San Diego in 1992 with the goal to teach soldiers how to use history. During his freelance years, he met Jake McNeice and began writing The Filthy Thirteen. He later became Assistant Command Historian at the U.S. Air Force Technical Applications Command in 1999, and in 2000, he accepted the position of Command Historian for the US Army Transportation Corps While serving as command historian, Killblane traveled five times to Kuwait and Iraq, twice to Afghanistan, and finally to Haiti during the earthquake response. He was one of less than a dozen federal historians to deploy to the war zones in Iraq and Afghanistan. He subsequently wrote historical publications on those wars. His research into convoy operations during Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom incorporated his firsthand experience riding with convoys in Iraq and Afghanistan. This first hand experience and his research on Vietnam War convoys, have made him the leading authority on gun trucks and convoy security. He authored four books on the subject. He also wrote a study that transformed the last remaining railroad operating battalion into the expeditionary railway center with an advisory capability, and authored the white paper that defined its capability. He finally retired from the Department of the Army in 2019 and Delivering Victory was the culmination of 18 years of research as the Army Transportation Corps Historian. Martial Arts Killblane began his martial arts training with boxing and wrestling while in high school and then studied Taekwondo and Hapkido under Son Duk-sung and Sang Soo "Tiger" Kim at West Point, and later Sil Seo Young. His combatives training in the Army taught him some judo and jujitsu. He began training in aikido under Doug Hanson, a senior student of Hiroshi Ikeda and Mitsugi Saotome, in 1996. He then studied under Pat Crosby, a senior student of Akira Tohei, in 2003. When Crosby moved away in 2011, Killblane became the head instructor of Virginia Aikikai and continued his training under Jim Baker, a student of Yoshimitsu Yamada and Hal Lehrman. In 2019, Killblane began studying how aikido would work against boxing and then Muay Thai in response to a YouTube challenge by Rokas Leonivicious to prove that aikido would work against other martial arts. References Bibliography