Author Spotlight: Gene Abel, author of “Broken Promises And Lies Of The Republicans”
Gene P. Abel, author of Broken Promises And Lies Of The Republicans, is a person who does not settle with the status quo and has always been at the forefront of change.
He was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania in 1941. Mr. Abel is from German and Scottish heritage and was educated in the public school system. Abel was married in 1960 to Lucy D. Brinker while he was attending Penn State.
He earned a B.S. from Penn State in finance/economics and an MBA from Lehigh University. He was a distinguished military graduate and received a regular army commission as a second lieutenant in the field artillery branch of the Army in 1963.
Abel served as a nuclear weapons officer in Germany and a member of the nuclear release authority that begins with the President and ended with Lt Abel. Upon the completion of his tour in Germany, he spent two years as a finance officer at Ft Lewis, Washington.
After four years of active duty, he accepted a reserve commission as a Captain in the Army Reserve and left active duty in 1968.
