Richard is a United States Marine Master Sergeant and Author from upstate New York. He attended a semester at S.U.N.Y. Canton, School of Technology in order to join the military. In July 1992, he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps and was married in October of the same year. He spent the next twenty years serving at Marine Corps duty stations in California; Hawaii; Georgia; Maryland; Okinawa, Japan; Camp Fallujah, Iraq; Forward Operating Base Payne, Afghanistan; and North Carolina. He received the Leadership writing award in 2003 from the Marine Corps Staff Academy and an Associate's D...