Elijah earned his BA in Political Science from Pensacola Christian College, graduating cum laude in 2013. He then served in both SOF and conventional units of the U.S. Army as an Airborne Infantryman until he was honorably discharged in 2018. Soon thereafter, Elijah earned his MBA with concentrations in Finance and Entrepreneurship through an accelerated program at the Crummer Graduate School of Business at Rollins College, where he graduated magna cum laude in 2020. Since then, he has spent approximately eighteen months abroad, traveling and living in North America, South America, and Europe, including two deployments to Ukraine as a private military contractor. He began political freelance writing before separating from the Army, and he continues to use this work to promote the ideals of freedom on national and international platforms.