Jim Sladack is a retired US Army lieutenant. colonel with 38 years of active and reserve duty, including tours as an S3 operations officer, paratrooper, and a Special Forces ("Green Beret") officer...view moreJim Sladack is a retired US Army lieutenant. colonel with 38 years of active and reserve duty, including tours as an S3 operations officer, paratrooper, and a Special Forces ("Green Beret") officer. He served seven years as adjunct faculty at the US Army Command & General Staff College. He has decades of training with various martial arts, edged weapons, sticks and modern small arms. For years, he volunteered as a part-time EMT on the "second busiest ambulance squad" in New Jersey. He was a real estate manager at the HQS of CCC, ITT, GE and Director-Global Real Estate for Allied-Signal/Honeywell and Director, Strategic Consulting Group for Newmark Knight Frank in New York City. Jim lives in Orange, California with his wife, Nancy.view less