Martin "Doc" Oliver, grew up in sunny San Diego California and is the oldest son of the late Submarine Chief of the Boat Martin W. Oliver and his wife and Eleanor A. Oliver: respectively a US Navy 20 yr. Submariner/Father and an English/Home Economics School Teacher/Mother. Both parents were from Tennessee. Oliver is a US Air Force Vietnam Veteran (1966-1972), and was part of a secret US Air Force Aeronautical Chart and Information Squadron at Hickam AFB, Pearl Harbor that made bombing maps for pilots flying in Vietnam. Afterwards he attended Monterey Peninsula College (oceanography major), and then Bible University, and Bible Theological Seminary earning a PhD, MA and BA (triple-major: Theology, Human Behavior, and Marketing major). He is the author of 15 other books and is the Founder of Dr. Oliver’s Consultations a one-man-band Management Consulting and Counseling Company established in 1978. Martin has been married to Diane L. Oliver since 1975 and they have 2 grown sons: Joshua, Austin as well as the late Martin Oliver the 3rd (who died in miscarriage in 1984 and who awaits a reunion with his parents in Heaven).