Jay Carp

Bio for Jay Carp

Boston, Massachusetts has the dubious distinction of being the city where Jay Carp was born and raised. After earning degrees from the University of Michigan in English and Engineering, Jay joined GTE (General Telephone & Electronics) where he worked for over thirty years as a civilian engineer and executive in military electronics. 

His career took him from Thule, Greenland, where he worked on the Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS). He returned to the United States and joined a team designing a radar system to locate enemy mortar and artillery shells for use in the Vietnam War. That project, (MPQ-32), was scrapped.

Jay spent over twenty years working on Inter Continental Ballistic Missiles (ICBM). His assignments were both in house and on site as he represented GTE at many Technical Interchange meetings. He became familiar with the Minuteman, MX, Peacemaker and Rail Garrison Missile systems.

         During  his career, his concerns have always been about the youth of our country and the problems handed to them by their elders. (He now includes himself in this group.) Jay believes that our younger generations were never given choices or asked for their opinions; they were just handed the problems their elders had failed to solve. i.e. the Vietnam war legacies.

This conflict of patriotism versus conscience is the subject of Jay’s book THE PATRIOTS OF FOXBORO.

Jay is the author of the USA Best Book of 2007 Award winner,

COLD WAR CONFESSIONS - Inside our Classifies Defense System

His other books are THE GIFT OF RUTH and the soon to be published LONELINESS.

Jay currently lives in Milan, Michigan with his wife, Hazel Proctor-Carp.