He won the 1977 Porgie Award (Best Paperback Original) for The Power and the Pride.
[1] Vaughan was a frequent speaker at seminars and at high schools and colleges, and has also hosted three television talk shows: Eyewitness Magazine on WAVY-TV in Portsmouth, Virginia; Tidewater A.M. on W05BQ-TV in Hampton, Virginia; and This Week in Books on the TEMPO Cable Television Network.
Vaughan was a retired Army Warrant Officer (CW-3) with three tours in Vietnam where he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air Medal with the V for valor, the Bronze Star, the Meritorious Service Medal, and the Purple Heart.
He was also an instructor and Chief of the Aviation Maintenance Officers' Course at Fort Eustis, Virginia.
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