APEX OC currently is organized by Chase Thompson. APEX OC was unofficial founded in February 2017 with 4 guys; 3 of them being Veterans, two being retired under medical conditions, from injuries sustained in service. Chase is already NRA Certified.

Chase is a medically retired Infantry Sergeant with three and a half years of combat experience. As a young man, growing up on a small farm in Missouri, he hunted and fished from the moment he could walk.

A decade of military service resulted in him conducting sniper training, mountaineer, and hand to hand combat training, among other survival techniques. Within those combat deployments,
Chase conducted special operations missions along side some of the most elite members of the United States military.