Who Is Richard Law?

Richard Law is the founder and part-owner of the Society of Field Inspectors, Inc. (SOFI).

Richard has performed field service inspections and property preservation since 1992. He has written a 300-page book on property preservation.

Richard served 20 years in the Navy as a Naval Flight Officer (NFO). After flight training in Pensacola, San Antonio and Whidbey Island,  he earned his wings of gold and qualified as a navigator in the EA-3B Skywarrior aircraft shown in the photo. He served aboard 7th fleet attack aircraft carriers and was awarded 13 air medals for Rolling Thunder combat operations.

Richard was an important part of a Seabrine project flying out of Atsugi, Japan. An EA-3B, which was specially configured with Army optical and telemetry gathering equipment, was flown to remote areas of the Pacific ocean to collect Russian satellite and ICBM ballistic missile entry data.

He later trained at the National Security Agency and transitioned to electronic warfare officer/mission commander in the EP-3E aircraft. While living in Spain, Richard lead the EP-3E airborne participation in project Outlaw Shark, an over-the horizon Tomahawk and Harpoon missile targeting system. Richard graduated from the Naval Postgraduate School and the Naval War College.

After the Navy, Richard worked as a defense communications/signals collection systems engineer/program manager for Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) and E-Systems in northern Virginia. At CSC he managed the Digital Switched Network and the defense communications architecture design for the Europe and Pacific defense regions. At E-Systems he worked on Air Force, Army, CIA, and NSA signals collection projects. He provided support for the Mystic Star program which provided secure voice and data communications for Air Force One and other White House special mission aircraft. He is licensed as a civilian pilot and a Virginia real estate broker. Richard also has an MBA and a masters degree in aeronautical systems.

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Comments

[James B]

Afternoon sir, agreed, very impressive, and thanks for service. My father was a navy man also , years back,..ALMOST visited Pacific Theatre,had deployment paperwork, however, did not get chance. (RIP).

My company provides hands-feet-eyes, on ground, up here on Cape Cod, in Barnstable County. It's a small outfit, providing service for a little over a decade. We take on additional inpsection research work every year, to supplement all of our shcedules, including & especially myself. A possible common acquaintence of an acquaintence, etc, etc, advised that it's at least worth a conversation to reach out.
Enjoy the day sir.

James B - Principle
Righteous Appraisal-Inspection-Title Co.
Barnstable-Plymouth-Bristol Counties
Registered W/Ma Bankruptcy Court (Id # 14587)
Cape Cod 508-367-8132 / [email protected]

[Barbara Olsen]

Hi Richard,
Enjoy reading all your blogs and posts. Thank you for all you do! You are appreciated.

Thank you for your service. You are a very talented man who wears many hats.

[Joe Novak]

Very impressive. You were a very busy man serving the greatest country in the world. Thank you for your service. Richard with your background, I'm curious, are you an amateur radio operator?