He is a "national security writer" for Pennsylvania's Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Ohio's The Toledo Blade.
Also, Mr. Kelly served in the Reserve in both the U.S. Marine Corps and with the U.S. Army Special Forces, with whom he served as a public affairs officer in Operation Desert Storm in Iraq.
During his career, Kelly was a news correspondent in Vietnam in 1970 and a deputy press secretary for the Republican National Committee in 1977.
Kelly was also "a deputy assistant secretary" of the U.S. Air Force during the Ronald Reagan administration.