Early Years
His father, Robert Scales, Sr. was a career Army man who graduated Officer Candidate School at Fort Belvoir, completed the Engineer Officer Basic Course and worked with Amphibious vehicles in Florida, where his parents met, before piloting amphibious landing craft in the Pacific campaign of World War II. Robert Jr. was born in Gainesville, Florida in 1944, but then "scurried all over the world".
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