The Unscripted Operator
Some careers are built by following a path. Mine was built by operating without a path.
I am a U.S. Army veteran, Private Investigator, author of eleven nonfiction books, artist, musician, entrepreneur, and aviator. My career spans military counterintelligence, federal service, heavy mechanics, unmanned systems, filmmaking, publishing, and product design—different fields.
Same operating principle:
Observe. Question. Adapt. Build.
The Evolution:
I began my Army career turning wrenches as a heavy-wheeled vehicle mechanic, wrecker operator, and M60 machine gunner. I later transitioned into Human Intelligence (HUMINT) and Counterintelligence, specializing in interrogations, source operations, tactical debriefings, battlefield forensics, and behavioral analysis.
After the military, I protected citizens within taxpayer protection operations for the Internal Revenue Service (U.S. Department of the Treasury). Today, I operate as a Private Investigator, applying that same evidence-driven, analytical approach to complex civilian problems. But analysis is only half the equation. I also build.
I founded Seghetti Art, Dragon Lantern Productions, Seghetti's Top Secret Seasoning, and the musical project Xing The Line. Whether painting a massive Veterans Memorial Mural in downtown Clarksville, Tennessee, composing music, or designing technical concepts, the objective remains identical: Find out what is true, strip away assumptions, and build what survives under pressure.
The Way Miyamoto Musashi wrote of the four paths: the Warrior, Farmer, Artisan, and Merchant. I have lived them all.
- ⚔️ Warrior taught me discipline, tactical adaptability, and extreme responsibility.
- 🚜 Farmer taught me patience, deliberate labor, and self-reliance.
- 🛠️ Artisan taught me how to extract a raw thought and shape it into something tangible.
- 💰 Merchant taught me how to turn ideas into viable products, businesses, and opportunities.
These paths forged a foundational belief: The defining question of a life is not “What do you want to be?” It is: “Who do you want to be?”
Titles change. Careers shift. Circumstances break. Character remains. I value competence over credentials, substance over appearances, and results over recognition. I am an investigator by instinct, a strategist by experience, and a creator by nature. Family, faith, and duty to country anchor everything I do.
My objective is simple: Keep learning. Keep building. Keep creating. Give something back.
That is The Way.
And I am nowhere near finished.
Explore Seghetti
🔎 Investigation & Intelligence. Professional investigative assets grounded in military HUMINT/CI training and federal service. Specializing in advanced interviewing, exhaustive research, behavioral analysis, and empirical evidence gathering.
✍ Books & Authorship: Eleven nonfiction works dissecting intelligence, systems thinking, decision-making, and deliberate living:
- The Modern Ghost Field Manual — Civilian preparedness, resilience, privacy, and survival asset recovery.
- The Modern Ghost Field Guide — Rapid-reference toolkits, checklists, and practical proficiency systems.
- The Modern Ghost: Urban Fieldcraft — Privacy, operational mobility, and resilience in dense urban environments.
- The Unscripted Operator — Thinking, adapting, and performing when standard procedures and assumptions fail.
- Human Intelligence — Interrogation, source evaluation, corroboration, and judgment under extreme uncertainty.
- The Accountability Gap — Mental illness, criminal responsibility, evidence, and legal insanity.
- The Apparatus Problem — Instrumentation, experimental boundaries, and what data actually permits us to claim.
- Debrief — Cross-disciplinary lessons drawn from mechanics, intelligence, federal operations, and creative production.
- Things I Wasn't Supposed to Know How to Do — A memoir of self-directed learning, raw curiosity, and navigating life without a manual.
- The Visible Divide — Highlighting the chasm between human perception, belief, and what empirical evidence supports.
- The Modern Anchorite — Solitude, focus, technological intrusion, and reclaiming deliberate control of time.
🎨 Seghetti Art & Murals: Original canvas work, abstract compositions, cosmic visual designs, and large-scale public installations—including the downtown Clarksville, Tennessee Veterans Memorial Mural.
🎵 Xing The Line & Seghetti Music: Original songwriting, multi-instrumental composition, audio engineering, independent production, and synchronization licensing.
🎬 Dragon Lantern Productions: Cinematic concept development, music videos, visual storytelling, and cutting-edge, AI-assisted media production.
🌶 Seghetti's Top Secret Seasoning: Gourmet, high-impact seasoning blends engineered for bold flavor profiles without relying on salt or sugar.
Think clearly. Build capability. Create something worth leaving behind.
