Background
Fackler, Martin Luther was born on April 8, 1933 in York, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Martin Luther and Naomi Dorcas (Gibbs) Fackler.
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Martin Luther Fackler
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AB magna cum laude, Gettysburg College, 1955; Doctor of Medicine, Yale University, 1959.
Career
Enlisted, United States Navy, 1960;
advanced through grades to colonel, United States Navy, 1976;
intern, U. Oregon Medical School Hospital, 1959-1960;
resident in general surgery, United States Naval Hospital, Boston, 1961-1965;
resident in plastic surgery, United States Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Maryland., 1966-1967;
staff surgeon, National Security Agency Hospital, DaNang, Socialist Republic of Vietnam, 1967-1968;
staff surgeon, United States Navy Hospital, Yokosuka, Japan, 1969-1971;
chief department surgery, United States Navy Hospital, Memphis, 1972-1974;
intersvc. transfer United States Army chief department surgery, 2d General Hospital, Landstuhl, Republic of Germany, 1975-1980;
chief department surgery, United States Army Hospital, Fort Carson, Colorado, 1980-1981;
director wound ballistics laboratory, Presidio, San Francisco, 1981-1991;
retired, United States Army, 1991. Technical advisory Association Firearm and Toolmark Examiners, since 1984. Advisory forensicsci. graduate school University of California, Berkeley, 1985-1991.
Speaker on war surgery, wound ballistics, weapons effects. Expert witness, consultant to variousstate, city and national law enforcement agys. and criminalistics laboratories;appointed steering commission on development less-than-lethal weapons for law enforcement use National Institute Justice, since 1986. Member of Canada General StandardsBd.
Committee on Police Ammunition, since 1989, Federal Bureau of Investigation symposium on wound ballistics, 1987, 93. Member of advisory county on soft body armor United States Office Technology Assessment, 1991-1992. Appointed permanent member examination jury wound ballistics, U. Marseille, France, 1993, visiting professor wound ballistics faculty forensic medicine, U. Marseille, France, 1993-1997.
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Membership
Board of directors American Civil Liberties Union, Gainesville area chapter, Florida, since 1993. Fellow American College of Surgeons (regional commission on trauma 1974-1975, 84-91). Member International WoundBallistics Association (president since 1990), French Wound Ballistics Society (honorary president since 1995), American Academy Forensic Sciences, NRA (life), Association Firearm and Toolmark Examiners (distinguished life member), Council Biology Editors, Phi Beta Kappa.
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Married Nancy Aleen Gray, September 29, 1964.
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American