J J McFarlandAlthough J.J. McFarland was born and raised in eastern Indiana, his father, grandfather, great grandfather and great-great grandfather were born in Burke's Garden Virginia. As a child and through his teenage years, he regularly visited family membersstill residing on the family homestead in Burke's Garden. Since his teenage years, J.J. has been an avid reader of spy novels and dreamed of one day working in the arena of spooks, spies, and espionage. He spent 20 years in the Intelligence Community, six of them in Seoul, South Korea, Frankfurt and Wiesbaden, Germany in Human Intelligence, i.e., intelligence gathered by means of interpersonal contact, as opposed to the more technical intelligence gathering disciplines. In the Air Force, J.J. spent his first 2 1/2 years in the U-2 Spyplane program where he met the most famous U-2 pilot, Francis Gary Powers, who was shot down over Russia on May 1, 1960. For two years he planned B-52 bomber missions originating in the United States and Thailand. J.J. worked in two Indications and Warnings Centers in Europe and South Korea, respectively and in 1980, he was assigned to a Tactical Training Group at Nellis AFB, Nevada, where he briefed Middle East threat to combat aircrew members participating in Red Flag, a program similar to the Navy's Top Gun program. While at Nellis Air Force Base, he also taught Soviet Missile Development at the Tactical Air Command's Officer Advanced Intelligence Course and sat on national-level committees examining Soviet Missile capabilities. When he retired from active duty, he held a Bachelor's degree in Politics and Urban Regional Planning and a Master of Arts degree in Communication Arts. He also was an Adjunct Associate Professor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Read More Read Less