About jbyron

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James B. Rudd graduated from Oklahoma University then became a US Navy Officer. He

spent a year in combat in Vietnam, followed by a year of shore duty in Japan, then a year in

thePhilippines. Subsequently, he went to Naples, Italy, and was a Special Intelligence 

Analyst and aide to the Commander-in-Chief of Allied Forces Southern Europe.After 

leaving the Navy, he got a Masters degree in International Business from Thunderbird. Rudd 

traveled to more than forty countries over the next decade and was thepresident of an 

international company. He left the business world, obtained aMaster of Science in Clinical 

Psychology, from Missouri State University, and did counseling for a few years.The author 

lives and writes in Virginia.