Combat Terrorism (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781960113986)

Lenzy Kelley was born and raised in New York City. He attended Haaren High School in Hell's Kitchen. After graduation in 1962, he joined the United States Army. After completing parachute training at Fort Benning Georgia, he was assigned to Fort Campbell Kentucky. In 1963 he married his childhood sweetheart Carolyne. Their first son Lenzy Darnell was born in 1963 at the Naval hospital in Queens NY with a second son Darren born in 1964 at Fort Campbell Ky. Lenzy also has two other sons Yuri and Joshua born in 1990 and 1991 respectively.

In 1965 he went to Fort Monmouth NJ for radio training. He later was assigned to Germany where he was stationed at Heidelberg and Karlsruhe Germany. A daughter, Stacie was born in Germany in 1967. Lenzy departed Germany in 1968. His subsequent military assignments took him to Arizona, Florida, Boston, Panama, Belgium, Holland, Korea, Indonesia, and Saudi Arabia. Lenzy retired from the Army in 1985 as a Master Sergeant. He worked a year in the private sector before being hired at Fort Monmouth NJ as a Department of Defense civilian employee.

During the next 25 years, Lenzy worked in Program and Project management assignments in communications support to Joint Military units. His last job assignment required several trips to Kuwait and Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. One of his other duties was being his organization's representative at all briefings and lectures regarding terrorism and bomb threats. This is where he acquired the knowledge to write his book on terrorism. His mother and father Ella and Lenzy, along with two brothers are deceased. His wife Carolyne passed away in 2006. Lenzy remarried in 2016 to the former Phyllis Ling.

Lenzy retired from the Federal service in August 2011. However, prior to the COVID-19 outbreak, Lenzy worked as a substitute teacher for two years. Lenzy holds a Bachelor's Degree in Vocational Education from Southern Ill University, in August 1987, and a Master's Degree in Educational Leadership from Temple University, in May 1992. In addition, Lenzy holds a Program Management certificate from Rutgers University. Lenzy has published four books. (Terrorism, Baseball Bible, Book of Sayings, and Donald Trump). His hobbies entail writing, politics and civil war history, and history of wars. He is an active member of the Red Bank Elks, Neptune American Legion, Disabled American Veterans (DAV), SIU Alumni, Temple Alumni, Advance Guard Wounded Warriors, Mount Olive Church, and Church of the Living Word.