Steven Hildreth

About the author

is an Iraq War infantry veteran and the author of The First BayonetFollow him on Facebook and Twitter.

9/11/2001: We’ve Still Got Warfighters Downrange

I was a kid back then. Just started 8th grade. Dad was stationed at Fort Huachuca at the time and we lived on post. I woke up and heard that a plane had crashed into one of the towers of the World Trade Center at or around 0700 hours Arizona time. I thought that was […]

American Gun, by Chris Kyle

The entire special operations community, and those affiliated with or following it, remembers a tragic day in February of this year. The news that Chris Kyle, the Navy SEAL sniper who holds the record for most confirmed kills in American history, was gunned down was heart-wrenching, particularly to those who knew him personally. In the time […]

Jack Murphy’s Target Deck: Book Review by Steven Hildreth, Jr.

The drug war. Gun-running. An alarming fusion of the private sector with the government apparatus. Strange bedfellows. All of these are hot-button topics in politics at large and specifically in regards to foreign policy. As an action writer, I can testify first-hand that hot-button topics are what make our plots flow. Our curiosity makes us […]