Jay Pierson received his BA from Park University, Parkville, MO and his MA from the University of Northern Colorado. Jay has over 35 years of teaching experience in the military, high school and college (undergraduate and graduate) including staff development for educators, curriculum development and teacher evaluation. He developed and taught “America and the Vietnam Era” at both the high school and college level. He also taught weapon guidance and control systems for over 10 years of his military career and has knowledge, now unclassified, of the successes and failures of such systems.