Fred T. Jackson (1939-) was born in Wadesboro, North Carolina to sharecropper parents and grew up on ten different farms in Anson and Union counties up to age 18. By Age six he had suffered three separate near death experiences from snake bites, an almost drowning, and a severely slashed throat from barbed wire his grandmother used as clotheslines. He enlisted in the Navy at age 18 after graduating #1 in the class of 1957 at East Polkton High School. Serving as a medical corpsman in the Navy, he attained the rank of Chief Hospital Corpsman and traveled extensively, receiving many awards and citations, including the prestigious Navy Achievement Medal. Fred's duty assignments while in the Navy were numerous and varied greatly, including duty aboard the Minesweepers USS Notable MSO-460 and USS Ability MSO-519; Hospital Ship USS Sanctuary AH-17, Tank Landing Ship USS Clark County LST-601 and the Helicopter Landing Ship, USS Guam LPH-9. He also spent considerable time serving as a Fleet Marine Force Medical corpsman with the First, Second, and Third Marine divisions. Additionally he served at several Medical facilities including 3 years at Preventive Medicine Unit#2 in Norfolk, Virginia, 2 Years at Naval Hospital Philadelphia, 1 year at Naval Hospital Rhode Island,18 months at Naval Hospital Camp Lejeune, North Carolina and 2 years at Navy and Marine Corps Reserve Training Center Charlotte, North Carolina. He also experienced a year at war in Vietnam during 1969-70 aboard the USS Sanctuary and the USS Clark County. Retiring from the military in 1979, Fred started, operated and sold a successful Janitorial Service Company; after which he began pursuing a favorite past-time of traveling and writing about his travels. In 2012 he began constructing his historical Memoir of service in the Navy for 21 years after 18 years growing up on farms in North Carolina.