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Currently living in Ohio Rich Browne has been something of a gypsy. He has lived in 12 states visited 49 of the 50 two U.S. territories and 18 foreign countries. He was a journalist. He worked for nearly 30-some odd years for a variety of daily and non-daily newspapers in a wide range of positions He also has been a war correspondent during Operation Just Cause in 1989 and a teacher and instructor. In addition he also won many journalistic awards. Rich served in the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Naval Reserve in the Vietnam Era (but not in Vietnam); and was in the Army National Guard when he was called up for service in the Persian Gulf War during both Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm where he served as an Army public affairs specialist in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. Rich now is medically retired from the U.S. Army where he was a civilian public affairs officer.