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Robert Boyd was born in San Diego, California, U. S. A. on February 21st, 1947 at Mercy Hospital, the son of an American Army NCO, and a working mother. Robert is a registered Democrat. However, he believes in the Constitution and the Bill of rights, and votes for what he believes is right for his country, not necessarily for what the Democratic party dictates.

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At age three Robert moved to Germany as a military brat where he lived in Hurkst just outside Frankfort for three + years with his family while his father served as a medical train commander.

At around age seven, Robert moved back to the United States to Fort Lewis, Washington, a US Army post, where his father was stationed. He lived there for several years until his parents purchased a home in Lakewood, Washington.

It was here, beginning at the young age of 11-12, that Robert began his intense training under his fathers, the local NRA rifle and pistol instructor, tutelage, as a highly competitive match shooter. Every week and weekend of his life, until he left high school, was spent training at various rifle and pistol ranges in his home state, on Fort Lewis and in shooting matches across the west coast, the Fort Lewis rifle range being used as his hub and main base for training while his father was stationed there as the commander of the main post dispensary.

Fort Lewis's large training grounds, thousands of acres of untouched lands were the fields and forests Robert trained himself in while he became proficient with both rifles and pistols. It was there that Robert learned about long range and extreme distance shooting with non-scoped and scoped rifles and hand guns while competing with his friends. Robert spent many hours every week in the forests of Fort Lewis and although he never fired on an animal, of which there were many, including bear, elk, dear, wolves, and fox's, he learned many self-taught stalking techniques that served him very well in later years in the military.

In his high school years Robert Attended Clover Park H.S. located in Lakewood, WA. where he delved into more shooting competitions, even at the high school. Many high schools had on campus indoor shooting ranges back then. In those days owning and knowing how to use a firearm was expected. His only other focus during those years was his greatest love, aircraft mechanics, aviation sciences, airframe, power plant and commercial aviation. Most of which were taught by Mr. Dale Welfringer at the Clover Park Vocational Technical school, all part of the Clover Park school district. And then, after his parents built a home on Lake Louise in Lake City, WA. while his dad was in Landstuhl Germany operating as a first sergeant, while commanding five hundred men, Robert transfered to another school district, to Lakes High School, in Lake City, Washington.

Robert, a patriot at heart and a military raised traditional man, angered over President Kennedy's assassination, a man he'd met at Tacoma Washington, a man he shook the hand of, angered at how the war was going in Vietnam, wanted desperately to do something, anything, to help his country fight communism and the enemy. In that effort he left high school early, during his senior year, to join the United States Air Force. He took his oath of service in Seattle, Washington with several of his friends from both his high schools. One of their fathers, an Army officer, swore them in. They all took basic training together at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, but upon completion, were transfered to different locations within the US for their continued training in various fields of endeavor. Robert, just after he graduated from basic training was offered a position at Lackland AFB, Texas, as a drill instructor (DI) trainee by the unit commander that had trained him but he passed on the offer so as to allow himself to become the aircraft mechanic he'd always wanted to be.

Robert was then sent to Amarillo Texas to train as an Aircraft Mechanic on the last class of students on the B-47 bomber. Then, as is explained in the book, even though he'd been trained as that mechanic on Bombers he was never actually allowed to work on an aircraft for the remainder of his tour of duty.

When Sergeant Boyd returned home to the United States, after his tour of duty, he never saw any of the men he'd joined the Air Force with, all his friends, again.

Because much of what had happened to him while he served in the Air Force was so off center from the norm and didn't make any sense to most peoples thinking, he lived off the so called grid for many years, always afraid that someone who'd commanded him in the US Government or the US Air Force wanted to make sure he wouldn't talk about what he'd done while he served his country. Of course, now that the novel Codename Litefoot has been written and published, that is a moot point.

Robert is a member of the Elk's club, now on demit, and a member of the teamster union, also on demit due to his being disabled. He has traveled across the United States many times as an over the road truck driver hauling (FAK) and on Motorcycles and has been a chef to many prominent Americans on the east and west coasts of America.

Today, Robert lives with his 87 year old mother, in her home, where he takes care of all her needs and even cooks all her meals while maintaining her home and property for her.

Book Publisher:

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Elizabeth McCann

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Steven Lawrence Hill Sr.

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Book: Codename Litefoot

Date Published: 07.03.10 /Edition 2 Hardcover

Book ASAPCID: 2380540

ISBN: 978-0-9828135-6-0

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