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Military Servicemember Books
August 24, 2007 (San Dimas, CA). Military-Writers.com is a
website committed to listing military personnel who have authored books.
William Gately is a Vietnam veteran and former
vice-cop from the
Metropolitan Police Department (Washington,
DC). In 1970, after a three year enlistment in the Marines and tour in Vietnam
he took the oath of police officer in the nation's capital. For the next eight
years he served as a member of the
Metropolitan Police Department. On June 17,
1972, William Gately was assigned to the
Metropolitan Police Department tactical unit
that surprised the Watergate Burglars. After leaving the joined the U.S.
Customs Service, eventually rising to the rank of assistant Special Agent in
Charge of U.S. Customs in Los Angeles.
William Gately co-authored Dead Ringer:
An Insider's Account of the Mob's Colombian Connection. According to
publishers weekly, Gatley, an employee of the U.S. Customs Service; Joe
Caffaro, a Sicilian-born businessman with Mafia ties; and Leo Fraley, an
American career criminal who became involved in Colombian drug-smuggling--these
men are an unlikely trio to be the subjects of the same book. Yet all played
major roles in court cases which tied the Medellin drug cartel to the mafia in
Sicily and thence to the U.S. mafia.
William Butler was a police officer for the
Gilmer Police Department (Texas). In addition
to his
law enforcement career,
William Butler is a former member of the
United States Army. During his more than seven
years as a soldier he attained the rank of sergeant (E5) and his duty stations
included: Fort Sam Houston (Texas); White Sands Missile Range (New Mexico: and,
two overseas tours. One of his military assignments overseas was as a patrol
officer assigned to the Allied Checkpoints Bravo and Charlie in Berlin,
Germany.
William Butler is the author of I
Remember Tomorrow. According to the book description, In an attempt to
rebuild her life, Jeanette relocates to a quiet little town, after spending ten
years in the military and suffering a failed marriage. But Jeanette is a
precognitive; able to see the future.
Douglas J. Vaughn graduated with honors from
the New York Institute of Technology with a B.S. in
Criminal Justice. He is a former
United States Marine and Vietnam veteran,
having served as a forward observer for artillery, naval gunfire and air
strikes. He spent most of his thirteen-month tour in Vietnam just below the
Demilitarized Zone near the Cua Viet River with the 1st Amphibious Tractor
Battalion where he served with Ron Kovic, the author of Born on the Fourth of
July.
Douglas Vaughn is also a veteran of the
New York Police Department. While assigned to
the 48th Precinct in the South Bronx, he gave technical advice to Paul Newman
during the filming of Fort Apache The Bronx. He also worked in the 20th
Precinct on Manhattans upper West Side and in the Highway Patrol Unit.
Douglas Vaughn He spent his final years with
the Police Department planning escorts for dignitaries and was forced to retire
in his twentieth year due to an injury incurred while escorting former President
George H.W. Bush. He is also one of the 200, or so, officers who has been
awarded the Police Combat Cross since its inception in 1934. This second
highest Department award is given for exemplification of extraordinary bravery
in armed combat.
Douglas Vaughn is the author of From the
Heights. According to the book description of From the Heights,
it begins in the New York City of the 1930s and takes the reader to the war in
the Pacific and the secret workings of the OSS in Italy and Switzerland during
World War II. It is a story of the privileged that summer in South Hampton and
the poor who swim in the Harlem River. It is a story of social climbing and
empire building. It follows the lives and loves of two generations and delves
into the inner workings of the
New York Police Department and battles fought
by United States Marines in Vietnam.
Military-Writers.com currently lists 41 current or former
military servicemembers and their 86 books.
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