USMC Combat Corresondent, Thomas Jefferson award winner, best newspaper armed forces, 1976. Attended Defense Information School, DINFOS, Fort Benjamin Harrison Indiana 1972 for writer and broadcast courses and returned in 1974 for editors course. Edited, published and responsible for layout of Camp Lejeune Globe from 1974 thru 1976. Presently writing Jungle Walk,Rollo and rudolph and other short stories and novels.