I was born and raised near Carlsbad, Texas and attended school in Water Valley, TX. After graduating from Angelo State University in 2002, I enlisted in the U.S. Army as an airborne infantryman and was stationed at Ft. Bragg, NC with the 82nd Airborne Division. Four years and two deployments later I decided that I wanted to continue serving this great country, but from the air rather than from the ground. In 2007 I moved to Ft. Rucker, Alabama where I became a Warrant Officer and began flight training to be qualified in the UH-60A/L Blackhawk helicopter. After Graduating flight school, I was stationed at Ft. Hood, TX where I met my beautiful wife, Karen. In 2011, we were married while I was home on R&R from Iraq. I graduated from the Army’s Maintenance Test Pilot Course in 2012 and we moved to Ft. Bliss, TX. Over the next three years I would be deployed two more times to Afghanistan and Africa, and Karen and I became the proud parents of our daughter Ava and our son Alex.

In August 2015, I transitioned from active duty to the Army Reserves in order to spend more time with my family. During this time, my brother and I, along with our families, decided we wanted to fulfill a dream to have a helicopter business. Our hopes were to combine our experiences and skills in a way that would offer a variety of necessary aviation services. That, along with a love of aviation that we wanted to be able to share with our children, is what started the idea that came into fruition as Rogue Aviation Inc.