Kevin Dockery (author)
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Kevin Dockery is an American
United States
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 fiction
Fiction
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 and nonfiction author
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 and military historian. He is best known for his work detailing the history and weapons of the Navy SEALs. He served in the US Army on the President
President
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's Guard, and as an armorer
Armorer
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. Since retiring from the Army, he has worked as a curator
Curator
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 for the SEAL Museum
Museum
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 in Fort Pierce, Florida
Fort Pierce, Florida
Fort Pierce, also spelled Ft. Pierce, is a city in St. Lucie County, Florida, USA. It is known as The Sunrise City. The population was 37,959 at the 2004 census. As of 2008, the population recorded by the U.S. Census Bureau is 41,000. It is the county seat of St. Lucie County.Fort Pierce is part...

, an historian
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, a game designer and as a lecturer
Lecturer
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. He has written 37 books, appeared in a number of television documentaries and served as technical advisor
Technical advisor
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 for several motion pictures.

He has written with or for several well-known figures, including Bill Fawcett, David Drake
David Drake
David Drake is an American author of science fiction and fantasy literature. A Vietnam War veteran who has worked as a lawyer, he is now one of the premier authors of the military science fiction subgenre.-Biography:...

, Jesse Ventura
Jesse Ventura
James George Janos , better known as Jesse Ventura, is an American politician, the 38th Governor of Minnesota from 1999 to 2003, Navy UDT veteran, former SEAL reservist, actor, and former radio and television talk show host...

, Harry Humphries
Harry Humphries
Harry Humphries is a highly-decorated former United States Navy SEAL who currently works as a consultant and actor on Hollywood films. After graduating from Admiral Farragut Academy and attending Rutgers University in New Jersey, Humphries joined the Navy, where he was assigned to UDT 22 and SEAL...

, Dennis Chalker
Dennis Chalker
Dennis Chalker is a retired Navy SEAL, inventor and author who has written six books about the United States Navy SEALs.-Career:Chalker began his military service with the U.S. Army, serving in the 82nd Airborne Division. Upon discharge he tried his hand at a few civilian jobs and found them less...

 and several other SEALs
United States Navy SEALs
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.
Kevin Dockery was born October, 1954 in Highland Park Michigan.
Quotations

"There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion." -- Lord Byron

"The chief fuddling they make in the island is Rumbullion, alias Kill-Divil, and this is made of sugar canes distilled, a hot, hellish, and terrible liquor". -- 17th Century account

"Fifteen men on the dead man's chest-Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!" -- Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

"Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash." -- Attributed to, and denied by, Winston Churchill

"Where I go, I hope there's rum" - Jimmy Buffett

"But why's the rum gone?" - Johnny Depp as "Captain Jack Sparrow", The Pirates of the Carribean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

"Hide the rum." - Johnny Depp as "Captain Jack Sparrow", The Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Man's Chest

"I prefer rum. Rum is good." - Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean:At World's End

 
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