He is a world traveller, amateur historian, and author. He joined the Valor Tours family as a tourist in 2003 when he went on his first Ghost Soldier tour. Since then he has travelled with Valor Tours to nearly every island battlefield in the Pacific. In 2010 he began escorting tours to the Pacific. He regularly works alone side John Innes to Guadalcanal, but also has taken groups to Okinawa and Tarawa. He is the author of The Last Lieutenant (Iwo Jima) and Profiles in Survival (Philippines). His father-in-law, Malcolm Amos, was a survivor of the Bataan Death March. He met his wife, Blythe, in Manila on tour in 2006. When he is not studying the war or travelling, he Participants in triathlons all over the country. Glen Williford of the Coastal Defense Study Group, author of his most recent book, AMERICAN BREECHLOADING MOBILE ARTILLERY 1875-1953 and