High Plains Warrior Novels

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    Though born in Michigan, Michael spent most of his early years growing up in Los Angeles.

     He entered the U.S. Army in his late teens, training and working in a variety of specialties, including light weapons and tactics, demolition and mine warfare, chemical, radiological and biological warfare, and radar mapping, before becoming a Green Beret. In the Berets, he served as an Intelligence Sergeant on an A team. He left the Army as a Sergeant First Class to become a police officer.

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     Michael was a member of the San Diego Police Department for thirty-six years. In his police career, he worked in Field Operations, SWAT, and Investigations before retiring in 2005.

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   After retiring, he became a man tracker for the San Diego Sheriff's Department's Search and Rescue Team. He remained in that position for seven years. He is currently a member of the San Diego Tracking Team, leads animal behavior and tracking walks as a docent for San Diego's Mission Trails Regional Park, and leads groups on tracking walks in the Laguna Mountains.

  Michael has an AA in Police Science and a BA in Business Administration.

    He has extensive wilderness survival knowledge learned in the military and as a wilderness backpacker. He is an animal behaviorist with a particular interest in scent-hunter/scent-prey relationships and alarm communications within the wild animal community.

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    And lastly, Michael has spent decades studying the hunter-gatherer cultures of North America, in particular the Northern Plains tribes.