About

Sean Hagerty is a retired Special Operations Soldier with over 25 years of experience.  He spent his younger years training and conducting combat operations with the 1st of the 75th Ranger Regiment.  After nine years, in 2005 he was selected for and assigned to a Special Operations unit at Fort Belvoir Virginia. There he spent sixteen years and finished his military career, retiring as a Sergeant Major.

He is currently the Senior Advisor to the Department of Defense Science Board in the Pentagon. His wife Misty is an Executive Officer at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency; oldest daughter Samantha is an administrative staffer for the House of Representatives in Washington DC; and youngest daughter Delaney is a criminal justice major at James Madison University set to graduate in May 2024. His step-daughter, Courtney and step-son, Travis have their hands full with the newest family additions; Rowen and Jameson.

His love for writing began in the cold mountains of Afghanistan, the dusty deserts of Iraq, and the plains of Africa. He would write short stories for his daughters, so they knew he was thinking of them while he was far away from home. Over the years, those playful fairytales were complete, and it was time for him to tell a more grown-up story for a wider audience. Sean Hagerty has combined over 25+ years of service in the Special Operations community and deep-rooted research instincts from years of academic pursuits in history to tell this story. A story that was written on the back of a daily Washington D.C. commuter bus heading to the Pentagon, during plane flights, car rides, and even on his pontoon boat drifting along the Potomac River. It all came together during evening edits in the small river town of Occoquan Virginia.