The Blue Ridge Resistance

Steven Bird was born in Harlan, KY in 1973, where he lived until joining the U.S. Navy in 1992. He spent the next thirteen years living in Northwest Washington state, where he served on active duty for eleven of those years. After leaving active duty, he completed twenty years of service in the Navy reserve retiring as a Navy Chief Petty Officer. While in the reserves, he pursued a civilian flying career, serving as a flight instructor, charter pilot, a turbo-prop first officer, jet first officer, and has been a jet airline captain since September 2007. He has served in both military and federal law enforcement capacities, and holds CFI, CFII, MEI, and ATP pilot certificates with numerous type ratings, as well as a bachelor’s degree in eBusiness. In his spare time, Steven has been involved with off-road motorcycle racing, competitive shooting, hunting, fishing, hiking, and myriad other outdoors activities. He currently focuses his free time on his family as a happily married father of three. He and his wife Monica have a small hobby farm in East Tennessee, where they raise their own fruits and vegetables, in addition to raising chickens, Katahdin and American Blackbelly sheep, bees, and rabbits. Steven Bird is a self-sufficiency minded individual with a passion for independence and freedom. He puts this passion into his writing where he conveys the things that he feels are important in life, intertwined with action packed adventure and the struggles of humanity.