Rick served in the U.S. Army as a military police officer and M.O.U.T. (Mobile operations Urban Terrain) school instructor during Desert Shield and Desert Storm and also achieved the rank of N.C.O. Rick has been a police officer for the city of Irving Texas eighteen years and has been assigned to their full time tactical team for the past eleven years. He has been on the entry team for nine years and has been involved in the planning and execution of hundreds of tactical operations. Rick also teaches

at the police departments training academy as a defensive tactics and firearms instructor.

Rick holds instructor certifications in the following:

- CSAT Tactical Pistol
- NRA Patrol Rifle
- ALERRT Instructor
- H&K Sub-Gun Instructor
- Simunition Instructor
- TCLEOSE Firearms instructor
- TCLEOSE Instructor

Rick also serves as a regional director of training for the TEXAS TACTICAL POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION. He has personally been involved in the coordination and training of hundreds of tactical officers from Texas and the United states.