Joseph Shimerdla
LTC Joseph Shimerdla is a CH-47 Chinook helicopter pilot and operations research analyst with over twenty-three years of active duty service in the U.S. Army. His assignments range across the continental United States, Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. He is an alumni of the United States Military Academy at West Point and the bestselling author of The Eighth Day and When Titans Fall. Joseph currently stationed at U.S. Special Operations Command in Tampa, Florida, where he lives with his wife and daughter.