Kyle Pratt grew up in the mountains of Colorado. When money for college ran low he enlisted the United States Navy. His first assignment was with a U.S. Navy unit at the Royal Air Force base in Edzell, Scotland. While on leave in Israel he met a young lady named Lorraine from Plymouth, Devon, England and married her the next year. Together they spent the remainder of his twenty-year naval career traveling around the world from Guam to Japan, Hawaii to Virginia and many other places. Today, Kyle and Lorraine live on a small farm in western Washington State.