-year-old boy from a small town in Ohio. His journey began in 1955 when he dropped out of high school and enlisted in the Navy with his parents' signature. Bud met four draftees from Cleveland, Ohio while he was training as a medical corpsman at the Great lakes Naval Training Center. These four college drop outs would "adopt" Bud as a younger brother and get him started on a more promising career path. Bud's travels would take him to various countries and cultures before his retirement from the Navy in 1975. Leaving Home II will be Buds ninth publication. His final book will be his autobiography titled "Looking Back at Me" and will include his most unusual and interesting experiences such as working with the C.I.A, and F.B.I. while on active duty in the Navy and other occurrences while director of radiology at Grandview Hospital, in Dayton, Ohio.