There are pictures of him online attending a memorial service at the Burning Man festival for a BLM agent who died of cancer sometime in the past two years.
This rumor of him being Special Forces was started on Facebook (at least that was where I saw it). The "proof" included a link to a documentary video about Special Forces in Afghanistan, and the person indicated as Daniel P. Love was in the video under the pseudonym "J." When he began to talk, I immediately realized it was not Love, because Love has a very deep voice and the guy in the video just had a natural tenor to his voice. But they both had beards and were wearing sunglasses. (/s)
Believe what you want, but if that guy Love was Special Forces, then he put those guys in a kill zone on purpose... and himself right there with them. But I have no insider knowledge... I'll defer to the pros on this board on that.
And yeah they were in a very indefensible position.