Background
Dugan Ashley was born and raised in Columbia, Missouri.
Dugan Ashley was born and raised in Columbia, Missouri.
He is currently based out of Missouri. At a young age he developed a deep interest in expressive arts and firearms. By the age of thirteen, Ashley began performing live music in bars and music halls in Missouri.
After high school in 2005, he enlisted in the United States Army as a Combat Engineer and was stationed in Schweinfurt, Germany with the 9th Engineer Battalion.
In 2006 he deployed to Ramadi, Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom as an engineer asset to 1–9 Infantry regiment 2nd Infantry division, who conducted various operations in East Ramadi including high profile operations such as Operation Murfreesboro. In 2009 he was honorably discharged from the Army at the rank of Sergeant.
On March 27, 2015 Dugan Ashley officially announced via the CarniK Con Facebook page and his own personal page that all CarniK Con activity would cease immediately. Although no reason is specified for this decision, many fans of CarniK Con speculate it to be partly or entirely due to a recent diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis, which he announced on August 21, 2014.
Dugan Ashley, however, did state that he would be available for other work via his contact email.
