Mr. Dinesman is not someone new within the Project Dynamo team. Mr. Dinesman, with a small group of likeminded professionals, began evacuating people out of Afghanistan on 15 August 2021. He worked with many unnamed groups, planning, facilitating, assembling packets of people for extraction, including the people who began Project Dynamo. All tolled, Mr. Dinesman helped, directly and indirectly, evacuate between 1200 and 1300 people. As situations arose throughout the globe, Mr. Dinesman continued to plan and facilitate the evacuations of Americans and other people anywhere they needed help, including continued support to Project Dynamo as recently as during the Haiti rescues.

Mr. Dinesman served 26 years in the U.S. Army and twelve years after that as a contractor. During his military career, he served in a variety of enlisted and officer assignments, as well as other jobs, in Special Forces, Infantry, and Intelligence fields, including tactical, operational, and strategic positions in 28 countries. Mr. Dinesman’s service includes prior enlisted time in the U.S. Army Special Forces as a Special Forces Communications Sergeant (18E) and a Special Forces Medical Sergeant (18D). As an officer, Mr. Dinesman served in the Infantry, and after being injured and unable to complete the 18A Course, he transitioned into Military Intelligence as an All Source Intelligence Officer, serving in leadership and staff roles at every level, from the Platoon to the Army Service Component Command.

Mr. Dinesman’s military experiences include combat operations; conventional, unconventional, and asymmetric warfare activities; insurgency and counterinsurgency; training; embedding and advising partner nations; security and stability operations; counter-drug activities; direct action; and peacekeeping operations, including various Joint Task Force-6 missions within the USA; the Centennial Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia; Intrinsic Action Task Force-98; the Multinational Force & Observers; Operation Iraqi Freedom; Operation Enduring Freedom; Military Advisor Team Leader in Colombia; and Security Cooperation missions in Mexico.

After his military service, Mr. Dinesman worked as a contractor on classified Airborne ISR programs in Afghanistan; developed training and curriculum for partner nations in the Arabian Peninsula; and successfully owns and operates a security company providing ultra-low profile protection to people of ultra-high net worth throughout Latin America.

Mr. Dinesman holds a Master’s Degree in The Art of War from the Command and General Staff College at Ft. Leavenworth, KS, and a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Texas at El Paso.

Mr. Dinesman’s military education includes: CGSC – Intermediate Level Education; Intelligence Officers Transition Course; Special Operations Functional Language Course – Modern Standard Arabic; Infantry Officers Advanced Course; Bradley Leaders Course; Infantry Officers Basic Course; Special Forces Functional Language Course – Arabic; Special Forces Medical Sergeants Course (18D); Special Operations Medical Sergeants Course (300-F1); and Special Forces Communications Sergeants Course (18E).

Mr. Dinesman’s awards include: Soldier’s Medal; Meritorious Service Medal with 1 Bronze Oak Leaf Cluster; Joint Commendation Medal; the Army Commendation Medal with one Silver Oak Leaf Cluster; the Army Achievement Medal with three Bronze Oak Leaf Clusters; the National Defense Service Medal with 1 Service Star; the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal; the Iraq Campaign Medal with 1 Campaign Star; the Afghanistan Campaign Medal with 1 Campaign Star; the Global War on Terror Expeditionary Medal; the Global War on Terror Service Medal; the Noncommissioned Officer Professional Development Ribbon with 2 Device; the Army Service Ribbon; the Army Overseas Ribbon 3rd Award; the Army Reserve Component Overseas Award; and the Multinational Force and Observers Medal 2nd Award.