Served as a combat correspondent with the 1st Marine Division in
Vietnam in 1967-1968. A fellow combat correspondent in the same unit was
the late Gustav Hasford. Hasford wrote "The Short-Timers," the Vietnam novel
on which the movie Full Metal Jacket (1987) was based.
During the Second Gulf War, Dye was hired by Los Angeles radio station
KFI as a military commentator and given a two-hour radio show.
His Alma Mater, Missouri Military Academy, has a long-standing football
rivalry with another nearby military school, Kemper. Kemper Military School & College, in Boonville, Missouri was used as the filming location for Combat High (1986) & Child's Play 3 (1991).