At the age of 19, Darryl Rodgers began a career as a corporate pilot. He served as a medic in the Army National Guard and later became a copilot/gunner on the AH-64 Apache attack helicopter. He has owned several small businesses and had the most fun running an outdoor summer day camp for boys. Rodgers also worked with at-risk boys through a nonprofit program that he started. Darryl has been married to his wife, Kim, for 26 years. They are the proud parents of two boys, Justin and Chase. Unfortunately, their oldest son, Chase, was killed in a tragic car wreck in 2014. Rodgers wrote about his son, Chase, in his first book, "A Life Half Lived."