David Reed is a Kentucky-born Air Force veteran, pastor, and Christian author whose real-life “God stories” animate his writing. Over a 22-year military career, “Shadow” graduated from Fighter Weapons School, directed Red Force F-5s against Blue Force F-15s throughout the Pacific Theater and led The Weapons Control Team to victory at the 1982 William Tell air-to-air meet, and he headed a Central-American air-defense modernization task force to great success. His rise from rural Kentucky farmhouses to Top Gun Radar Scopes grounds a message that disciplined training and humble prayer win earthly and spiritual battles. After 49 years of marriage, Reed lost his wife Jeannie; her final exhortation inspired the Hands of Love model for discerning lifelong partners. Now he equips believers to build loving, eternal, relationships and become “Top Guns for God,” translating cockpit tactics into Bible study, fasting, and accountability. A USA Pickleball ambassador, he turns every court into a mission field. Reed, a father and grandfather, continues planting gospel “seeds” wherever God taxis his next sortie, by sharing God’s grace and testimonies to the world every day.