Carpenter, Dale: - "In the Army, I was a paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne Division. Now I am a librarian. It hasn't been too much of a change. Both call for being well trained, aware of your environment, reacting quickly to changes, courage, initiative, resourcefulness, and dealing daily with people you otherwise wouldn't associate with." Dale Carpenter was a paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne Division, hitchhiked over 25,000 miles in the US and wrote a book on hitchhiking and 11 other books, and has a master's degree in library science. He fly fishes, continues to write and haunts bookstores, garage sales and libraries.