Aaron had the privilege of serving in the USAF as a Battlefield Airman for nine years, deploying to Afghanistan in support of Special Operations Task Force East, 10th Mountain, 82nd Airborne, and coalition partners. During this time, he traveled extensively in Afghanistan, seeing many of the ways a society in a deep state of emergency affects the lives of the people. After, Aaron assisted in establishing state Homeland Response Forces, which use the joint-partners concept to stand up inter-agency disaster response framework. It was during this time that he began to see that those most impacted by emergencies - the citizens - are generally the least represented in the response efforts. Aaron completed his degree at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas going to work for the USGS in field science, and private security contracting both for infrastructural security and executive protection. While this forms the spine of his professional experience, growing up impoverished and deep behind the lines of drug culture shaped the way he approaches the social dynamics that accompany disasters, and the situations hardship creates. This interdisciplinary perspective led him to start Integrated Skills Group, which became devoted to finding the core skills that citizens would need to be "responder zero", or their own rescue team. This concept became the basis for "Carry the Fire", his first book.
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