Todd Vorenkamp, a graduate of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, is a former naval aviator who has served as an aircraft commander on the Boeing H-46, Sikorsky Aircraft H-3 and H-60, and Eurocopter H-65. He is the former editor-in-chief of Rotor Review, the Naval Helicopter Assn.’s quarterly publication, and is a trustee of the association. His writing was featured in the anthology, “Operation Homecoming: Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Home Front in the Words of U.S. Troops and Their Families,” published by Random House and the National Endowment for the Arts. Todd works in New York City as a writer and award-winning photographer.