Kevin Tracy was born in Northwest Indiana and spent much of his young life there. When the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 shook the world, Kevin was a senior at Chesterton High School. It didn’t take long for the then-17-year-old to appear in the office of a nearby Air Force recruiter. Having grandparents who served in World War II and the Korean War, as well as watching Operation Desert Storm as a child and Operation Noble Anvil as a teenager, Kevin understood the importance of serving one’s country in a time of war. He put his hopes of going to college to become a computer animator on hold in order to enlist in the US Air Force as an Operations Intelligence Analyst.
Despite problems with his back, Kevin graduated Basic Training at Lackland Air Force Base, TX and completed his technical training at Goodfellow Air Force Base, TX before heading to Beale AFB, CA to work with other analysts as a Multi-Source Analyst and Senior Correlation Analyst for U2 and Global Hawk operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. After his enlistment, Kevin worked as a terrorism analyst specializing in terrorism in India for the Federal Government as a contractor. He finally returned to the Hoosier State in 2008 to use his MGIB to complete his college education before it expired. Kevin is currently a Senior in the Purdue University system as a Military Operations Intelligence major in their School of Liberal Sciences and is maintaining a 4.0 GPA.
Although Kevin has been involved in conservative Republican politics for the past decade, he stepped away from politics all together in 2010 to protest bigotry and idiocy in the conservative grassroots, as well as corruption and incompetence in the Washington Establishment. Although he is a practicing Roman Catholic and a proponent of re-uniting the Catholic and Christian Orthodox Churches, Kevin has been an outspoken opponent of those using any religion to inspire hate. He was disgusted in 2008 as John McCain and Mike Huckabee competed for the support of hate-mongering Texas preacher John Hagee. Unfortunately, the vile things Hagee has spewed from his deceitful mouth have been mild in comparison to the things grassroots conservatives have said about Muslims since then. In 2010, the widespread rhetoric used against the Islamic faith and its practitioners mixed with the politically convenient silence of the GOP establishment caused Kevin to not want anything to do with the party or the conservative movement until things change. Now through with politics, Kevin has been focusing on his studies and working on several projects he’s put on the back burner over the past few years, including the famed MSPaint Comic.