Sherman LynchSherman Lynch was born in 1948 at Millington Naval Air Station in Tennessee, where his father was a Navy Chief teaching Aviation Electronics. As a Navy brat, he lived in San Diego, California, from 1951 - 1953; on Ford Island, Hawaii, from 1953 - 195; and in Fremont, California, from 1957 - 1961. His father then retired and moved the family to Oregon.In 1967, he graduated from high school and enlisted in the U.S. Army for three years, going to bootcamp at Fort Lewis, Washington and then to Signal Corps School at Ft. Monmouth, New Jersey, for nine months, before going to the 1st Signal Brigade in the Vietnam War in 1968 - 1969. Then he went to the 11th Signal Group at Fort Huachuca, Arizona, and discharged in 1970 to go to college.Bored with college, he reenlisted in 1973 for the Air Defense Missile School at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, where he graduated from Fire Control Repair as a Spec-5, became an instructor and promoted to Staff Sergeant before his discharge in 1976 to attend the University of Alabama School of Nursing. After being forced out of Nursing School in 1977 by faculty that believed men should not be nurses, he enlisted as a Navy Hospitalman, rose to Hospitalman First Class, and served his three-year sea duty tour with the 1st Marines at Camp Pendleton, California, before his discharge in 1988 to attend college. In 1991, he received a BS in Computer Science, with a Minor in Writing. After the dot-com bust in 1999, he returned to medicine, and retired from the VA Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah, with a twenty-five-year pension in 2007. He is now living in Utah. Read More Read Less
