Richard Killblane
Richard E. Killblane is a native of Oklahoma and enlisted in the US Army in 1973 serving in 1st Special Forces Group (Airborne) on Okinawa. He then graduated from the US Military Academy in 1979 and served as an officer in the Infantry and Special Forces. He is a veteran of Central American Counter-insurgency Operations and Operation Just Cause (Panama). He earned his Masters of Arts in History from the University of San Diego in 1992 has been the Command Historian for the US Army Transportation Corps at Fort Eustis and Fort Lee, Virginia, since 2000. He traveled to SW Asia five times chronicling the history of transportation operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, and logistics operations in Haiti in 2010. He has published numerous articles and his books include: The Filthy Thirteen, War Paint; The Filthy Thirteen Jump Into Normandy, Mentoring and Leading; Career of LTG Edward Honor, Circle the Wagons; The History of US Army Convoy Security, and Convoy Ambush Case Studies.