Richard Eldon Killblane[1] (born April 15, 1955)[2] is an American military historian, author and martial arts instructor.

He served as the Command Historian of the U.S. Army Transportation School at Fort Lee, Virginia for 19 years and traveled extensively in Iraq and Afghanistan to research convoy operations.

[3] Born in Kansas and raised in Oklahoma, Richard Killblane graduated from Ponca City High School in 1973.

[4] He enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1973 and became an Intelligence Analyst in the 1st Special Forces Group on Okinawa, Japan and was cross-trained onto a team as a demolitions man for one mission before his unit was inactivated.

As a captain, Killblane was transferred to Fort Ord, California where he commanded a rifle company in the 2nd Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment (Manchus).

Killblane began his martial arts training with boxing and wrestling while in high school and then studied Taekwondo and Hapkido under Son Duk-sung and Sang Soo "Tiger" Kim at West Point, and later Sil Seo Young.

When Crosby moved away in 2011, Killblane became the head instructor of Virginia Aikikai and continued his training under Jim Baker, a student of Yoshimitsu Yamada and Hal Lehrman.