Vince Nakovics retired from the US Navy as a Chief Petty Officer. His career was anything but conventional with a variety of positions from technician to manager, prison guard to investigator, trainer to head honcho, he’s covered a lot of ground. He jokes about his technical career being in a time warp because it worked backward, starting out on the most technically advanced equipment and working his way back to equipment used in the 1940s on board the USS Missouri. But it didn’t end there!
After retiring he found himself reverse engineering the construction of Revolutionary War cannon carriages for Colonial National Historical Park in Yorktown, VA. He began blacksmithing in 1999 to produce 18th-century reproduction parts.
His blacksmithing group needed a newsletter editor and over almost seven years he published over 65 issues, interviewed over 100 American and international blacksmiths, and wrote two articles for Anvil’s Ring. After publishing his book about his cannon carriage work at Colonial National Historic Park he decided to dedicate himself to writing stories that include international intrigue.
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