Cover artist Aaron Provost is an Iraq War veteran and Purple Heart recipient. Enlisted in the U.S. Army in July 2001, at the age of 18. He served in Iraq 2004-2005 as a fire support specialist with 1st Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division. Upon leaving the service in 2007, he joined the fire department in Killeen, Texas, before eventually moving to Maryland where he pursued his degree."Pushing aside many self doubts, I set my heart to what had always been so important to me," he writes. "Art had been a part of me since as early as I can remember.

After going through so much, it was the thing I had been doing all along. I was able to find myself again. From second-grade spaceship drawings, to teen angst filled sketches during high school, to terrain sketches on the observation post, to sketchbooks filled with images of my dogs . it took me so many uncertain years to figure it all out."Provost is a 2013 graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore. The pencil sketch of an Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected truck, featured on the cover of this book, comes from his senior thesis. For more of his work, visit: www.aaronprovost.

com.Provost currently works as a graphic designer and dismount at Ranger Up based out of Durham, N.C., creators of patriotic T-shirts, military-themed gear, and zombie movie chaos. Visit: www.rangerup.com.