Lenzy Kelley was born and raised in New York City. He attended Haaren High School in Hell’s Kitchen. After graduation in 1962, he joined the United States Army. After completing parachute training at Fort Benning, Georgia, he was assigned to Fort Campbell, Kentucky. In 1963 he married his childhood sweetheart, Carolyne. Their first son, Lenzy Darnell, was born in 1963, with a second son, Darren, born in 1964. In 1965 he went to Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, for radio training. He later was assigned to Germany, where he was stationed at Heidelberg and Karlsruhe Germany. A daughter, Stacie, was born in Germany in 1967. Lenzy departed Germany in 1968. His subsequent military assignments took him to Arizona, Florida, Boston, Panama, Belgium, Holland, Korea, Indonesia, and Saudi Arabia. Lenzy retired from the army in 1985 as a master sergeant. He worked a year in the private sector before being hired at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey as a Department of Defense civilian employee. There were two other sons, Yuri, born in 1990, and Joshua, born in 1991. In addition, Lenzy has five grandchildren. During the next twenty-five years, Lenzy worked in program and project management assignments, providing communications support to joint military units. His last job assignment required several trips to Kuwait and Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Lenzy has published two other books: Combat Terrorism and Book of Sayings. Lenzy retired from the federal service in August 2011. Lenzy holds a bachelor’s degree in vocational education from Southern Illinois University, August 1987, and a master’s degree in educational leadership from Temple University, May 1992. In addition, Lenzy holds a program management certificate from Rutgers University and a micro-soft project certificate. His hobbies entail coin collecting, writing, politics, and Civil War history. Lenzy is an active member of the Red Bank Elks, Neptune American Legion, Neptune Disabled American Veterans.