Dr. Randy Arrington is a graduate of UCLA who served 20 years as a Tactical Naval Aviator in the United States Navy, in both an active-duty and reserve capacity. He flew several different aircraft including the A-7 Corsair and A-4 Sky Hawk attack jets off the flight decks of four different aircraft carriers. He has logged over 14,000 hours of flight time, made hundreds of carrier-arrested landings, and was a qualified staff Landing Signal Officer and Instructor Pilot. He was an interceptor pilot for U.S. Customs and Border Protection in the Department of Homeland Security for over 21 years and served as Deputy Director of the Air and Marine Operations Branch in San Diego, California.

Randy is President of "Teen Angel" Productions in Hollywood, and is currently serving as the Executive Producer of the major motion picture Kerosene Cowboys.  The feature film is based on his novel.  When he is not writing Naval Aviation action novels or turning them into movies in Hollywood, he works for Flight Safety International in Atlanta, Georgia as an Instructor Pilot in the Citation 550 and Kingair 350 models of aircraft. Randy has a PhD in Political Science and has served as an Adjunct Professor teaching both undergraduate and graduate students for the past ten years at UCLA, UCSD, the University of San Diego, Tulane University, LSU, and the University of New Orleans. Randy has five children who call New Orleans their home.  His oldest son, Captain Ryan Arrington, is an Officer in the United States Army and is a veteran of the War in Iraq.