Military Figure. A native of Boston, Massachusetts, he enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps in May 1943 following the attack on Pearl Harbor, where he served across the Pacific in various campaigns during World War II. After the war, he enrolled at Emory University for three years and accepted a position in the U.S. Army as a second lieutenant. Five weeks after the Korean War started, his platoon pushed the North Korean forces in the next few months, but his division was forced to pull back to South Korea in December. On April 22, 1951, his platoon was able to rescue 16 British Soldiers from a massive offensive that was initialized by Chinese forces, and upon seeing how the wounded greeted him, he decided to follow a career in the medical department. After the Korean War, he returned to the United States just in time for his first wedding anniversary, was able to finish his fourth year at Emory, and was accepted to a medical position at the Brook Army Medical Center in San Antonio, where he worked across various hospitals across the country including Mount Sinai, the University of California, the University of Illinois, and Columbia Presbyterian in which in 1964, where he was assigned as assistant chief of the Department of Otolaryngology in Walter Reed. He was then promoted to chief of the Department of Otolaryngology eighteen months after being appointed as an assistant chief, U.S. Supreme Court justices and former presidents were among the clients that he worked with under his care. During his tenure at Walter Reed, he and his team developed approaches with skull base surgery for conditional that were previously fatal; it was then he put the new treatments that he and his team invented to use on wounded soldiers and civilians during the Vietnam War. He retired from the armed forces in 1978 and became a professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, retiring in 1991 as a professor emeritus. After he retired from the medical department, he became a novelist and wrote three books regarding his experiences in the armed forces and medical departments.