Author Biography

C.D. Williams, know as Chuck by his friends, was born in Sacramento, California. Just after he turned seventeen, he forged his parent’s names on the enlistment forms and joined the U.S. Coast Guard. During the next 27 years, Williams completed his formal education and received extensive technical, medical and management training. During this same period he served on four ships and traveled to many parts of the world.

During his Coast Guard career Chuck has ventured above the Arctic Circle and walked the streets of Bangkok, Thailand. Williams has been to all 50 of the U.S. States, 47 islands or island groups in the Pacific and a dozen countries. He has flown on Search and Rescue Missions in two types of helicopters and several classes of fixed wing aircraft. During rescues at sea Chuck has put out in terrible sea conditions, think about the movie “A Perfect Storm”. He has participated in wildlife and medical research expeditions, typhoon relief operations and a number of other humanitarian actions. One search and rescue operation involved a tanker that exploded and sank 900 miles at sea with 41 crewmembers aboard, 33 survived.

Williams 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 Southwest Philippine Islands. On this tour he provided health care not only for the other 14 members of his crew, but also for an indigenous population of about two thousand. This included, Pirates, Smugglers, Fishermen, Muslims and Christian pioneers. At this unit he delivered babies and treated everything from Tuberculosis and tropical diseases to combat wounds.

When Williams retired from the service in 1984 he held the rank of Chief Warrant Officer. His last duty assignment was, Chief, Health Services Branch with the Seventeenth Coast Guard District in Juneau, Alaska. Chief Warrant Officer Williams received 18 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 and worked as the Risk Manager for the local Municipality.

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 16 years as an Alaska resident, Chuck was an avid boater, angler, hunter, camper, motorcyclist and hiker. He boated, fished and hunted most of the waters and islands up and down the Southeastern Alaska Panhandle. He has hiked and camped in many areas of the State, when not doing that he would take long, solo, motorcycle odysseys. He has ridden the Alaska/Canadian Highway, the Canadian Rockies and the Cascade Mountains in Washington State. On one particularly long trip he put his bike on an Alaska State Ferry in Juneau, Alaska got off in Prince Rupert Canada and rode from there to the Baja peninsula in Mexico, mostly along the Coast Highway. On the return trip north he traveled through the California and Nevada Desert County, returning to Alaska after about six weeks with 12 thousand new miles on his motorcycle.

After their son Marty left home and many of their friends moved south, Chuck and his wife Maripi started thinking about relocating. His wife suggested Las Vegas. In the summer of 1994 they made the move. In Las Vegas Williams became a Realtor and worked in the booming Real Estate Industry in Southern Nevada until 2002 when he retired 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. He has also written several articles that have been published on the internet as well as a compendium of humorous stories he titled “Bent Humor”.

In their spare time, Chuck and Maripi enjoy taking road trips around the country and particularly enjoy the beautiful scenery that can be found throughout the American Southwest. When Chuck is not reading or at his computer writing, he spends time chatting with friends at his neighborhood coffee shop.

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