Mezue ahịrịokwu a: Doherty bụ nwa nke abụọ n'ime ụmụ atọ Bernard na Barbara Doherty mụrụ. Ọ zụrụ dịka onye ọkwọ ụgbọelu na Embry<unk>Riddle Aeronautical University tupu ọ kwaga Snowbird, Utah maka oge oyi ole na ole wee sonye na United States Navy na 1995. Doherty jere ozi dị ka Navy SEAL sniper na Corpsman, zaghachiri na
bọmbụ nke USS "Cole" ma rụọ ọrụ na Iraq na Afghanistan. Ọ hapụrụ ndị agha mmiri n'afọ 2005 dị ka onye isi ndị agha nke mbụ ma sonye na CIA. Mgbe ọ hapụsịrị ndị agha mmiri, ọ rụrụ ọrụ n'ụlọọrụ nchekwa nkeonwe n'Afghanistan, Iraq, Israel, Kenya na Libya. Ọ bụ onye isi na-azọpụta PFC Jessica Lynch site na ndị agha Iraq na 2003 na nzọpụta nke Captain Richard Phillips site na ndị omempụ Somali na 2009. N'ọnwa tupu mwakpo ahụ, Doherty dịka onye ọrụ nkwekọrịta na Ngalaba Na-ahụ Maka Ọha na Ọha, gwara ABC News na ajụjụ ọnụ na ya onwe ya gara n'ọhịa na Libya iji chọta MANPADS, ndị na-agbapụ n'ubu-elu-igwe, ma bibie ha.