John R. Scales

I’m John Scales. I have mostly written non-fiction, but I have a brand new fictional account of a Special Forces detachment, set in the near future. Please check it out!

I travel, I take photos, I sometimes teach as well. I’ve been all of the way around the world—all seven continents and dozens of countries.

I worked as an engineer for many years, just retiring in 2014. I also used to be in the military—US Army infantry and Special Forces. At one time I taught high school physics, mathematics, and physical science while coaching basketball and volleyball—and tried to retire from engineering to do that again but 9/11 intervened and I ended up in Afghanistan instead. Now I live in Huntsville, Alabama, near where I grew up. My neighborhood is wonderful, particularly the others (human and animals) that inhabit it and I’m always happy to return to it when I tire of travel.