Welsh and Scottish Hawk MacKinney grew up in northwest Arkansas where he wrote for his school newspaper. Hawk served over twenty years as a Special Staff Corps Officer with the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps, a Naval Academy Blue and Gold Recruiting Officer, a Navy Recruiting Command Liaison Officer, and Commanding Officer of units attached to the U.S. Marine Corps bases at Parris Island, SC and the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, CA. Along with his postgraduate degrees and summer courses in Cambridge, England he majored in English and Russian history and foreign lang...