Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: Ko Doherty te tuarua o nga tamariki tokotoru i whanau ki a Bernard raua ko Barbara Doherty. I whakangungu ia hei paerata i te Whare Wananga o Embry<unk>Riddle Aeronautical i mua i tana neke ki Snowbird, Utah mo etahi hotoke ka uru atu ki te United States Navy i te tau 1995. I mahi a Doherty hei kaipatu Navy SEAL me te Corpsman, i whakautu ki te
te whakaekenga o te USS "Cole" me te haerenga mahi ki Iraq me Afghanistan. I mahue ia i te Navy i te tau 2005 hei kaitohutohu tuatahi, ā, i uru atu ki te CIA. Whai muri i tana wehenga i te Navy, i mahi ia mō tētahi kamupene haumarutanga tūmataiti i Afghanistan, Iraq, Israel, Kenya me Libya. I uru nui ia ki te whakaoranga o PFC Jessica Lynch mai i nga ope Iraqi i te tau 2003 me te whakaoranga o Kapene Richard Phillips mai i nga kaiwhaiwhai Somali i te tau 2009. I te marama i mua o te whakaeke, i kii a Doherty hei kaikirimana me te Tari Kawanatanga, i roto i tetahi uiui ki a ABC News i haere ia ki te mara i Libya ki te whai i nga MANPADS, nga pere whenua-ki-te-rangi, ka whakangaro.