Scott Baron, is a U.S. Army veteran of the Vietnam War and former law enforcement officer in California. He is the author of They Also Served: Military Biographies of Uncommon Americans and coauthor, with James Wise, of Dangerous Games: faces, incidents and casualties of the Cold War, Women at War: World War II to Iraqi Freedom, International Stars at War, and Soldiers Lost at Sea: A chronicle of Troopship Disasters in Wartime, all from the Naval Institute Press.[1]