Author: Dempsey Darrow

Dempsey is a 1975 graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point who was privileged to attend and subsequently graduate from the United States Army Ranger School while still a cadet in 1973. After completing the United States Army Airborne School at Fort Benning he was again privileged to become a Black Hat Jump and Jumpmaster Instructor. He served as Fort Benning's Infantry School Liaison to Fort Hood's TRADOC Combined Arms Test Activity (TCATA) where he was a member of the five man team that tested the target mechanisms and procedures which would become the heart of the National Training Center at Fort Irwin. Skilled in multiple computer disciplines, Dempsey subsequently spent three decades as a software developer and programmer on IBM and plug compatible mainframes, as well as on UNIX and Linux platforms.