He was a career member of the Senior Foreign Service and a decorated Vietnam War hero.

The Portsmouth, Virginia City Council appointed him Goodwill Ambassador for Goree Island, Senegal in 2008.

He performed military police duties in Okinawa and Germany before his first assignment as an infantry officer in South Korea.

Myrick served as Deputy Director for policy planning and coordination in the Bureau of Inter-American Affairs from 1987 to 1989.

In 1989, he was awarded a Una Chapman Cox Fellowship and conducted research on a project entitled "Change in the Horn of Africa and Implications for U.S. Foreign Policy in the 1990s."

[3] The government of Lesotho awarded him the Most Meritorious Order of Mohlomi, its highest honor to a non-citizen, for his work in promoting democracy.

During his military career, Myrick also served in Ethiopia from 1975 to 1979 as an Army foreign area officer.