 In 2015 he was invited to speak during the Pritzker Military Museum's ON WAR Military History Symposium.Kirsch attended The Citadel on an NROTC Scholarship and graduated in 2004, at which time he received a commission as a Second Lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps.In 2006 he graduated the Marine Air Ground Task Force Counterintelligence/Human Intelligence School and was assigned the Military Occupational Specialty of 0204 Human Source Intelligence Officer.