From an early age, Chuck had a guitar in one hand and a pen in the other, writing and performing in the small town of George West, Texas. In 2004, he formed his first band "Across the Tracks" with some buddies at Bee County College. As fortune would have it, he joined the military with his best friend Matt Murphy and began the first part of his journey as a story teller and songwriter. In 2007, Chuck deployed to Afghanistan with the 173rd Airborne Brigade as a team leader and paratrooper to the