Frank Lee Burns (23 November 1939, Colby, Kansas – December 10, 2003, Georgetown, Texas) was a U.S. Army lieutenant colonel who served in Vietnam and, in retirement, became an information specialist.
degree from Central Michigan University (where he helped draft the 1962 Port Huron Statement, a political manifesto) and later earned a Master's degree in Criminology from Sam Houston State University.
He created the military recruitment slogan "Be All That You Can Be" in 1980[2][3] and was director of "Task Force Delta" (an ad hoc working group of 300 U.S. Army psychic adepts that met quarterly at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas) beginning in 1983.
[4] In the same year, Burns created the Meta Network (TMN), one of the first public online communities.
He flew stunt kites with his wife Billye (née Adams) to the delight of crowds of children at the Washington Monument and elsewhere.