R.M.A. Spears, author of Armor of Glass

R.M.A. Spears retired from the US Marine Corps in 2009, having served 27 years in the Navy and Marine Corps.. While serving in AOCS Class 06-78 in the US Navy, he contributed to the script for a movie that would go on to be An Officer and a Gentleman.

His educational credits include a BS, MBA, OCS, AOCS, TBS, IOC, AWS, C&S, OIF, OEF, DUI, and a cavalcade of inglorious civilian occupations.

He resides in the ancestral home he salvaged on the bluffs overlooking the Mississippi River in rural Missouri.