About

Death Valley Magazine is written by a diverse group of Professional Adventurers, Wilderness & Urban Survivalists, U.S. Contractors, Former and Active Military, Intelligence Professionals, Tactical Training Practitioners, IT Engineers, Tactical Gear and Knife Enthusiasts and Interesting People (well… Interesting to us).

Death Valley Magazine brings you politically free and quick to read news, commentaries and reviews. We don’t care if you watch FOX or CNN, we only care about bringing you informative and entertaining articles.

Why the name “Death Valley Magazine”?

To us Death Valley represents Adventure, Danger, Survival, the Great Outdoors and even Entrepreneurship.

From the Gunslingers looking for Adventure, to the Gold Rush Miners looking to hit it big, to the Timbisha Native Americans who live off the land a place like Death Valley truly represents the past and present for Professional Adventurers no matter where you are from or what century you were born in.

Contact us at: JG (at) deathvalleymag.com

The Death Valley Magazine Crew hard at work banging out quality articles

Here at DVM you will find the finest (and craziest) group of Tactical Journalists banging out articles (almost) every day

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~James G
Founder – Editor in Chief – King of All Tactical Gonzo Journalists

James G is a Veteran Civilian Contractor who has worked in the Middle East and Southeast Asia for way too long; he has traveled to over 50 countries chasing fortune and glory. He spends his off time in Indonesia and Virginia getting drunk, shooting guns and writing poorly written articles.

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Contributing Writers

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~Bubba G
Editor at Large

Bubba G. is an active protective professional presently performing contract duties in the Middle East and has well over 15 years of military, high risk contracting, international training and martial arts experience.

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~Dave W.
Associate Editor

Dave W. is Death Valley Groups resident Liberal and Grammar Monkey. He has been DVM Copy Editor for the past year, and will now oversee DVM Press into an publishing company that will focus on the issues and stories that interest this community. He’s done everything from Open Wheel Racing to working as a monkey in a tactical store. A proud music snob and mistakenly labeled as a hipster, you can find him organizing his vinyl collection and editing whatever you send in.

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~Norm W.
Chief Information Security Correspondent

Norm W. is an information security engineer currently employed as a CONUS civilian contractor. He has worked in the computer industry for the past 20 years and holds several security and non-security related IT certifications. Norm has worked with multiple agencies in the private and public sector as well as foreign companies and agencies to resolve information security issues.

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~John B
Chief Medical and S&R Correspondent

John B has been an EMT for 18 years and is currently a Field Team Leader for a Search and Rescue Team, he also holds a Master’s degree in Neuroscience.

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Jim V.
Contributing Correspondent

James V. has spent the past 15 years working in security including time in the Marine Corps, as a civilian law enforcement officer, and also as a contractor in Iraq. You can see some of the other stuff he’s written on his website, www.jamesvachowski.com

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~Luke W.
PSD Correspondent

Luke served 8 years in the US Marine reserves and is a former Georgia Police Officer. He has been a firearms instructor since 1998 training LE, Civilians, Military and US Contractors. Luke is currently in his second rotation in Afghanistan where he is the lead for a PSD team.

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~Paul Zelinka
Chief Martial Arts Industry Correspondent

Paul Zelinka, is the owner of Titan Fitness & Martial Arts, a MMA, boxing, and fitness business located in State College, PA. Paul has been involved in the martial arts business since 1993.

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~Lorenz “Lo” Szabo
Contributing Correspondent

Lorenz “Lo” Szabo is an Austrian citizen and tactical gear-head, helping US companies locate customers in Europe and parts of Middle East. His areas of expertise are body-armor, less-lethal, and low-light. He also consults end-users on special equipment and training. He loves coffee, cigars, and all kind of bling made from Titanium. He has a dislike for people using political correctness as a defense for their own stupidity. As he has written this all himself, it might not be true at all…

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~Andrew R.
Contributing Medical Correspondent

Andrew R. has been involved in EMS for 24 years with 18 of those years as a paramedic for a fire department just outside the Washington DC. During this time Andrew has also served for 10 years on a Federal WMD Decon Team, 5 years as a Forensic Investigator for the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner for the State of Maryland, done ride-alongs with MDA (Magen David Adom, the ambulance service of Israel), and has been involved in the training of Navy SEAL and Air Force PJ paramedics.

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~Alex S
Contributing S&R Correspondent

Alex S works as a ground searcher on a lowland search & rescue team and is qualified to rescue on land and at sea. He spends his off time waiting for his callout phone to go off, laughing at drop leg admin panels and reuniting other teams with their searchers.

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~Dr. David Sperow
Dental Medicine Correspondent

David is a US based dentist that works through La Cima World Missions to lead medical and dental relief teams to Honduras and Southeast Asia. Prior to founding La Cima, he and his wife ran a small mission clinic in the mountainous interior of Honduras in 2001 and 2002

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~Rob Krott
Foreign Correspondent

Rob was raised in McKean County, Pennsylvania, and educated at St. Bonaventure University and Harvard University.

A former US Army officer, he has traveled to over seventy countries and received military awards and decorations from ten foreign governments including Croatia’s Zahvalnica, awarded by the defense minister for combat missions along the Kupa River, and the Spomenicom Domovinskog Rata medal awarded by the Croatian president and personally presented to him by Ivica Racan, the Prime Minister of Croatia.

His exploits in the Balkans and Somalia were published in Save the Last Bullet for Yourself: A Soldier of Fortune in the Balkans and Somalia.

Krott has also served in the field with the Sudanese People’s Liberation Army and the Karen National Liberation Army in Burma. He is the military affairs correspondent for Small Arms Review and was previously mast-headed as chief foreign correspondent for Soldier of Fortune and as a columnist and foreign correspondent for Behind the Lines: The Journal of US Military Special Operations.

He has been working in Iraq as a private security contractor since 2003 with breaks for work as a “Risk Management Consultant” with The Discovery Channel; as a SERE-C instructor at Fort Rucker; and as a Socio-Cultural Advisor with Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa, AFRICOM, Camp Lemonier, Djibouti.

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~Frazier D
Civilian Contractor EOD K-9 Correspondent

Frazier D was a police officer for 14 years, 8 as a K-9 handler. He is currently a Civilian Contractor bomb dog handler in Iraq.

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~Ron N.
Contributing Correspondent

Ron N. is a current LEO in a central Atlantic metropolitan region, with twenty years of military and law enforcement experience in the Explosive Ordnance Disposal, Intelligence and Counter-terrorism fields. Currently assigned as an EOD technician and Explosive Canine Handler, he also assists with Explosive Breaching, Active Shooter, and Firearms Instruction for his agency.

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~Dan L.
Contributing Correspondent

Dan L. is a college student currently studying Civil and Environmental Engineering and has spent most of his life in the outdoors. He has led boy scouts into the woods many times, and never gotten lost, loves to drive random dirt roads and travel and see the western US, in his off time he drinks too much Mountain Dew and studies for college.

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~Papa C.
Contributing Correspondent

Papa C. is a 911 Dispatcher for a metro Sheriff’s Office. He has been working in public safety for 4 years, and prior to that worked in television production. He has experience and training in general communication, crisis resolution, domestic intervention, and hostage negotiation.

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~Jason A.
Contributing Correspondent

Jason A. served for 10 years in the Marine Corps, to include multiple tours in Iraq. Much of that time was spend in the more unconventional units such as ANGLICO (Air/Naval Gunfire Liaison Company), and on PSD teams. More significantly, he was in-charge of the PSD teams for the senior military and civilian leadership in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. Currently Jason A. is a security consultant for a security company that contracts with the federal government and private companies, mostly within the energy sector, conducting Security Vulnerability Assessments (SVA) and penetration testing of high-risk chemical/ petroleum facilities within CONUS and OCONUS, as well as EP work for energy sector executives.

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~JP T.
Contributing Correspondent

JP has been a Firefighter/Paramedic in a rural town in South Central Florida for 5 years. He is a member of an Urban Search and Rescue Light Technical Rescue Team (USAR-LTRT) with additional training in Rope Rescue, Vehicle Extrication, Structural Collapse, Trench and Confined Space Rescue.

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~Eric S.
Contributing Correspondent

Eric S. is an 8 year Army veteran and now works as a Deputy Sheriff on a full time T.A.C./Street Crimes Unit. He spent the majority of his time in the Army doing PSD work in vacation spots like Bosnia and the Middle East. He now enjoys spending quality time with dopers, deadbeats and dirt bags.

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~Barry I.
Contributing Correspondent

Barry I. has served in the Army and Army National Guard for13 years to date, He currently works for the Federal Bureau of Prisons as a Corrections Officer. He is a former SORT member for the BOP. He trains hard to play hard, and enjoys giving people a hard time.

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~David West
Contributing Correspondent

David W. spent many years cowboying, working for the railroad, in manufacturing and in the firearms industry. Now a self-employed gunsmith, David lives on the side of a mountain in the Black Hills of South Dakota.

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~Mac G.
Contributing Correspondent

Mac G. Served with the 82’nd Airborne and is currently a law enforcement agent

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~John R.
Contributing Correspondent

John R. is a currently serving member of the CF (Canadian Forces). He has ten years of experience serving as a soldier within the Communications and Electronics Branch, and has completed one tour of duty in sunny Kandahar, Afghanistan.

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~Buck M.
Contributing Correspondent

Buck M. has been a medic for over twenty years in both the military and in the civilian sector.

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~Brian O
Contributing Correspondent

Brian O is a police officer with 8 years experience, 4 of which with the SWAT Team. Previous service with the 3rd Ranger Battalion but now working Fugitives on a Task Force. “Sleep is a crutch”

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