Patrick M. Blake

Patrick M. Blake, the author – spent a year in the Naval Hospital in Pensacola recovering from his wounds. He declined to accept the medical discharge recommended by the Navy doctors and reenlisted in the Marine Corps on a medical waiver. The waiver stipulated that he could not continue to serve in the infantry and he was given a desk job that he quickly came to hate. Over the next six years on active duty, he attended college at night and eventually retired on disability in 1975. Pat began a second career in the computer software industry, and today he is the president of his own life science software and consulting company.