Justin is a practicing paramedic, sworn law enforcement officer, and paid volunteer Mountain Search and Rescue (SAR) technician, and state-certified LE instructor. He is an accomplished shooter with pistol, revolver, shotgun, and rifle, a recognized expert in covert entry techniques, a master instructor, and he quite literally wrote the book on digital privacy and security. He is a veteran of a crack commando unit with tours in Iraq, Afghanistan, and a couple other hotspots during the heyday of the GWOT. Following his military service, Justin spent a vaguely-defined period bouncing around the Middle East and Central Asia, carrying a rifle and a radio as a “contracted representative of U.S. and Western interests.”

Justin has jumped from perfectly good airplanes, plumbed the briny depths, probed the mysteries of Petra, and once met Jenna Jameson in-person (true story). He has lived in all four corners of the U.S., the Midwest, and the National Capitol Region, has traveled to 46 U.S. States, over two dozen countries, and lived #vanlife before it was cool. A lifelong learner and accomplished autodidact, Justin attends numerous training classes and reads around 100 books a year. Among other things, Justin is a symbiote to the finest German Shepherd Dog to ever walk the face of this earth, and is dating one of the most beautiful women in the world.