Amazon Follow Follow authors to get new release updates, plus improved recommendations and more coming soon. Eric Kasten, born at Bethesda Naval Hospital in 1971, grew up in Eastern North Carolina and Virginia. The son of a Navy Corpsman stationed in Camp Lejeune and Norfolk, Eric joined the Army as an M1A1 Tank crewman. After being stationed in Erlangen, Germany, Eric worked as a Technician for GTE on international telecommunications contracts. In all, he visited or worked in eleven countries. As of 2013, he is in his seventeenth year working in telecommunications. Working and studying, Eric