Captain Meyer served close to five years on active duty in the Navy during World War II, mainly in Cuba and North Africa, first as an intelligence branch yeoman and then as a supply corps officer. From 1948 until he retired in 1975, he was attached to Naval Reserve Supply Company 9-7, Chicago. He holds a Ph.D. from Loyola University in Chicago and is Professor Emeritus of English at Morton College in Cicero, Illinois.
