Charles Williams:  

Life ABOUT THE AUTHOR C. D. Williams, known as Chuck by his friends, was born in Sacramento, California in 1939. Just after he turned seventeen, he forged his parent’s names on the permission forms and enlisted in the U. S. Coast Guard. During the next twenty-seven and one half years, Williams received extensive technical training, completed his formal education, served on four ships and traveled to many parts of the world. During his Coast Guard career Chuck has ventured above the Artic Circle and walked the streets of Bangkok, Thailand. He has been to all of the U. S. states, forty-seven islands or island groups in the Pacific and more than a dozen other countries. He has flown on missions in two types of helicopter, several classes of fixed wing aircraft and has put out to sea to rescue people in conditions that would make the movie “A Perfect Storm” seem calm. Chuck has participated in wildlife and medical research expeditions, typhoon relief operations and a number of other humanitarian actions including search and rescue operations, including one involving over thirty injured survivors. He served in Vietnam in 1967. From 1969 to 1971 he was the medical corpsman assigned to an isolated U. S. Coast Guard station in a very remote area of Palawan Island in the Southern Philippines. When Williams retired from the service in 1984, he was a Chief Warrant Officer. His last duty assignment was, Chief, Health Services Branch, Seventeenth Coast Guard District, in Juneau, Alaska. Chief Warrant Officer Williams received eighteen medals and awards for his service, including; the Coast Guard Commendation Medal, the Coast Guard Achievement Medal and the Vietnam Service Medal. After leaving the Coast Guard, Williams remained in Alaska where he held the position of Risk Manager with the City and Borough of Juneau, Alaska. In 1991 he retired from government service once again and became a licensed independent insurance adjuster, traveling throughout Southeastern Alaska, investigating casualty claims. During his more than sixteen years as an Alaska resident, Chuck ...Expand for more