A hunting guide while still in his teens in his native Minnesota, Dart learned his woodcraft first hand, ascribing lore handed down to him from his father and uncles. He is qualified to wear both Airborne wings and Ranger tabs as well as a star on his Combat Infantryman's Badge. Dart has participated in covert reconnaissance missions in half a dozen undisclosed areas of operations and is believed to have at least two Presidential awards locked away in a top secret safe at the Pentagon. When the unskilled see Dart at work it is very easy for them to believe that they are witnessing some sort of psychic phenomena. The amount of information he can detect from a bent blade of grass, a displaced pebble, the relative depth of a heel print, is beyond the grasp of most people.

"Nothing mystical or psychic about what I do. I just know what to look for, and I have a lot of patience."