[1][2] Pitcavage earned a PhD in American military and social history from Ohio State University in 1995.
The site's subscription list, which mainly included law enforcement officers and other "watchdog" groups, is still being used by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL).
[6][7] With the success of the Militia Watchdog project, Pitcavage was made the Director of Investigative Research for the State and Local Anti-Terrorism Training Program (SLATT).
[8] The ADL absorbed Pitcavage's Militia Watchdog group and now maintains the site as an archive of his work between 1995 and 2000.
[14] In 2006, a student radio station at St. Petersburg College interviewed Pitcavage for an episode titled "Militia Movement".