Chuck Pfarrer
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Charles Patrick Pfarrer III (born April 13, 1957) is an American writer, film producer, and former United States Navy SEAL.
As an author, he has penned published screenplays, novels, comic book, and non-fiction works.
Regardless of medium, his work usually deal with themes pertaining to the military, and he has worked on blockbuster films like Navy SEALs, Darkman, and Hard Target.
Life and education
Pfarrer was born April 13, 1957, in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Charles Patrick Pfarrer, Jr., a career naval officer, and Joan Marie Pfarrer, a registered nurse.
He graduated from Staunton Military Academy in 1975, and studied Clinical Psychology at California State University at Northridge and the University of Bath in the United Kingdom.
Military career
In October 1980, Pfarrer began active service with the United States Navy and completed Officer Candidate School in Newport, R.I., 1981. He began his service as an Ensign in the United States Navy and went to Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL instruction at Naval Amphibious Base Coronado. Pfarrer graduated with BUD/S class 114 in September 1981 after six months of preparation. Following SEAL's tactical training (STT) and completion of a six-month probationary period, he was granted the 1130 designation as a Naval Special Warfare Officer, entitled to wear the Special Warfare insignia, and spent the next five years as a Navy SEAL. At Naval Amphibious Base Little Creek, Virginia, his first assignment was to Underwater Demolition Team TWENTY ONE (UDT-21). When UDT-21 was redesignated as SEAL Team FOUR, he deployed often as a military advisor in Central America, trained NATO forces in Europe and the Mediterranean, and completed a combat deployment in 1983 to Beirut, Lebanon during the Lebanese Civil War. He was sent by the Multi-National Peacekeeping Force as a SEAL Assistant Platoon commander in Beirut in 1983. Pfarrer started a seven-month specialization and preparation course in Dam Neck, Va., in September 1984. Pfarrer was one of the SEAL Team assault leaders convicted of Abu Abbas' abduction and the hijackers of the cruise ship Achille Lauro in October 1985. During structured training exercises and operations, the Pfarrer planned, rehearsed, and carried out. Assault Element Commander at the United States Naval Special Warfare Development Group, Pfarrer resigned from naval service in June 1986 (DEVGRU).
Writing career
Pfarrer wrote a spec script while in the Navy, which was also published in college. His film credits include writing, acting, and film work in Navy SEALs, Darkman, Barb Wire, and Hard Target. The Jackal, Virus, and Red Planet were among Pfarrer's other screenwriting awards. He joined the Writers Guild of America's Western Branch.
He is an uncredited writer on the films Sudden Impact and Arlington Road, and he wrote early drafts for Shooter and The Green Hornet. He is the author and designer of six graphic novels for Dark Horse Comics, as well as two interactive full motion videos, Flash Traffic and Silent Steel, both for Tsunami Media.
Crash Site, Pfarrer's screenplay, was in production as a part of ALCON media. It was supposed to be directed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Charlie Gibson and produced by John Bladecchhi and Alcon co-chiefs Broderick Johnson and Andrew Kosove.
In 2007, Killing Che is his first published book.
In April 2016, the United States Naval Institute Press published Pfarrer's second book, a work of nautical fiction. The Man Without a Country, a novelization of Hale's life and his time as a prisoner on an American ship, is based on Edward Everett Hale's epic American short story.
Pfarrer was instrumental in the 2004 effort to recall Writers Guild of America president Charles Holland, who had mistakenly claimed to be a wounded combat veteran, intelligence officer, and Green Beret. Holland resigned later that year.
Warrior Soul, the Memoir of a Navy SEAL, was Pfarrer's best-selling autobiography.
Pfarrer is the author of the 2011 book SEAL Target Geronimo: The Inside Story of the Mission to Kill Osama bin Laden, a New York Times best-seller who gave a different account of the raid than the government.
He has written op-eds for The New York Times and the Knight Ridder syndicate. On CSPAN-2, NPR, the Arabic network Al Hurra, IPR, the Voice of America, Fox News, ABC, America Tonight, and The Australian Broadcast Company, he has appeared as an author and counter-terrorism expert.