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.

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