Gordon is a retired Army Lieutenant Colonel who served in both the enlisted and officer corps. Shortly after achieving the rank of Staff Sergeant and graduating college with a degree in Computer Science, he was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant and was assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division where he obtained Senior Jumpmaster status. Gordon spent the next 19 years serving in a variety of units to include the Southern European Task Force - Airborne where he served as the Deputy Joint Communications Officer responsible for both tactical and strategic communications throughout a theater of operations, to include Afghanistan where he was awarded the Bronze Star.