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C. D. Williams was born in Sacramento, California. 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. Williams
has ventured above the Artic Circle and walked the streets of Bangkok, Thailand. He served in Vietnam in 1967.
From 1969 to 1971 he was the medical corpsman assigned to an isolated U. S. Coast Guard station on Palawan Island in the Philippines. When
Williams retired from the service he was a Chief Warrant Officer. His last duty assignment was, Chief, Health Services
Branch with the Seventeenth Coast Guard District, in Juneau, Alaska. He received eighteen medals and awards during his
career included 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 took a job as Risk Manager with the local municipal government. After retiring from that position he became a licensed independent
insurance adjuster, traveling throughout Southeastern Alaska, investigating casualty claims. In 1994 Chuck and his wife
Maripi decided to move to a warmer climate and relocated to Las Vegas, Nevada. In Las Vegas Williams worked as a Realtor
for six years until he decided to pursue his ambitions as a writer. He studied creative writing under Robert Cawley
at the College of Southern Nevada before writing his first novel Palawan. Since then he has completed
a short story SOS Rescue at Sea and is working on both a second novel and his memoir.
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