Trivia

William Mortensen Vaughan dropped out of Weber State University in Ogden, Utah when it was still Weber State College.

William Mortensen Vaughan is a retired U.S. Army Staff Sergeant.

William Mortensen Vaughan served in West Germany while the Berlin Wall fell.

William Mortensen Vaughan served in the Republic of (South) Korea when Kim Jung Il launched a missile over Japan.

William Mortensen Vaughan served in the Civil Air Patrol (an Auxilary of the United States Air Force) within a year of President Richard Nixon's resignation.

William Mortensen Vaughan's late uncle, William Floyd Knight, attended high school with J. Willard Marriott, the founder of the Marriott International hotel chain.

William Mortensen Vaughan's first cousin, once removed, Donna Smith Packer, married Boyd K. Packer, who became the President of the First Quorum of Twelve Apostles in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (the Mormons), February 3, 2008, which made him next in line to become the President of the Mormon church. Boyd K. Packer died at home on July 3, 2015, at the age of 90, after serving as a "general authority" of the Mormon church for more than fifty years (longer than anyone else had), but without ever becoming the President of that church. Donna also died at home, March 5, 2022.

William Mortensen Vaughan's first professional photo shoot as a model was by the photographer Gianluca Galtrucco, at Mr. Galtrucco's home in Hollywood Hills, California, Saturday, March 26, 2011. William was specifically asked to wear his aviator glasses in order to better resemble Terry Richardson for this gig, and he received $210 cash for it.

Though later becoming agnostic, William Mortensen Vaughan served as a Latter-Day Saint (Mormon) missionary in Uruguay, where he became fluent in Spanish, and conversational in Portuguese and Italian. His Aunt Donna Smith Packer, attended his "Mission Farewell" at the Mormon chapel on Kiesel Avenue, across the street from the home of Orren Walker (Hi-Fi Murder survivor), in Ogden, Utah. William served in Urugay, where he celebrated the Day of Kings, 1982, in Montevideo, returning to the U.S. on Friday the 13th of May, 1983, because President Spencer Kimball curtailed Mormon missions for single Mormon men, from two years to eighteen months. William served his first two months in training at Provo, Utah.

Though not Hispanic, William Mortensen Vaughan was a fluent Spanish linguist in the U.S. Army, often out-scoring native Spanish speakers on the Defense Language Proficiency Test for Spanish.

William Mortensen Vaughan was promoted from the rank of Sergeant (pay grade E-5) to Staff Sergeant (E-6), in the United States Army, with 666 Promotion Points, and a Date of Rank of June 1st, 1997. He was never promoted again, but served as a Staff Sergeant for thirteen years, until he retired in 2010.

William Mortensen Vaughan graduated from Ben Lomond High School, in Ogden, Utah, as did Dr. William C. DeVries, who was the first person to successfully implant an artificial heart in a human being. William Mortensen Vaughan was born in 1962, which was the year Dr. DeVries graduated from Ben Lomond.

William Mortensen Vaughan served with the 10th Mountain Light Infantry Division while other soldiers from that Division appeared in "War of the Worlds," starring Tom Cruise and Dakota Fanning.

William Mortensen Vaughan attended the unveiling of his saucer (#147) at the San Antonio Flying Saucer, September 10th, 2004, which was his last night in San Antonio, Texas, before moving to Fort Drum, New York, to serve with the 10th Mountain Light Infantry Division.

William served in the U.S. military for over 20 years without ever seeing a body bag, although he heard about them and saw images of them throughout his career. It was only when he was placed in a body bag for Bruce Mason's "Chez Upshaw" that he finally saw one firsthand.

Jeremy Rubin, Alyse Wax, and two crew members made a trip to Edwards Air Force Base just to film an interview with William Mortensen Vaughan on August 27, 2011, for their Z.A.S.K. (Zombie Apocalypse Survival Kit) TV pilot.

William Mortensen Vaughan is a great grandson of a Pony Express rider named Erastus (a.k.a. Rasmus) Julius Smith, whose route was between Brigham City, Utah and Malad, Idaho.

James Green (XI) and Frances Green (II) are William Mortensen Vaughan's father- and mother-in-law, respectively - the parents of his wife, Libertad Green.

William Mortensen Vaughan served his last duty day in the U.S. Army on October 29, 2010. "Zombie Apocalypse," starring Ving Rhames and Taryn Manning, in which William appeared as a zombie, premiered on the SyFy Channel one year later, on October 29, 2011.

William Mortensen Vaughan served approximately six months, with the Tenth Mountain Light Infantry Division, in Operation Enduring Freedom VII, in Afghanistan, from August, 2006, until January, 2007.

William Mortensen Vaughan served approximately twelve months, with the Tenth Mountain Light Infantry Division, in Operation Iraqi Freedom VI, from May 4, 2008, until April, 2009.

William Mortensen Vaughan served on the details that set up and removed the chairs and bleachers for the World's Largest Re-enlistment Ceremony, during which General David Petraeus re-enlisted over 1,200 U.S. Military Service Members, in the atrium of the late Saddam Hussein's Al Faw Palace, at Victory Base Camp, Iraq, July 4, 2008.

William Mortensen Vaughan used to be a Deputy Sheriff in Strevell, Idaho.

After William Mortensen Vaughan's late uncle, William Floyd Knight, passed away, his Aunt Sylvie (Mr. Knight's widow) donated The City of Rocks, in Idaho, to the U.S. Government, and it became a National Park. When she died, September 10, 2015, she left her 750-acre ranch to the Mormon church, in hopes that they would convert it into a museum; instead, they sold it.

Tony McNamara (II) filmed William Mortensen Vaughan in his U.S. Army Dress Blue Uniform for a Pentax ad, March 15, 2012, in Somis, California. Before shooting, Tony showed William pictures on his laptop computer, of Iwo Jima Survivors, which Tony had obtained while directing "Return to Iwo Jima".

William Mortensen Vaughan is a descendant of Danes who immigrated to Utah in the late 1800's, as was William Herbert Mortensen, who was born in Park City, Utah in 1897, founded the William Mortensen School of Photography in Laguna Beach, California, and photographed Hollywood celebrities, including Jayne Mansfield.

William Mortensen Vaughan moved to Hollywood, California, in mid-January, 2012, because he was hired as a "tele-fundraiser" by Donor Services Group, on Sunset Boulevard. Troy Metcalf, who played Jim on "The Middle," fired him within two weeks, for not raising as many funds as his peers.

On August 3, 2012, William Mortensen Vaughan finished translating the screenplay for "Blast and Whisper: Elijah's Story" into Spanish, for subtitles and dubbing on future versions of the DVD.

William Mortensen Vaughan worked as a sign twirling "Lady Liberty" for the Liberty Tax Services on Western Avenue, in Hollywood, in the spring of 2012, and the entire "tax season" in 2013.

On December 31, 2012, William Mortensen Vaughan's cousin, Leroy Nelson, passed away. William's wife, Libertad Green, had a relative named Lee Roy Hawkins, who also passed away on December 31st, but years prior.

In 2012, William Mortensen Vaughan served as an English advisor to Dr. Thomas Ahmed on his novel, The Child Bride and the Old Man of Arabia.

William Mortensen Vaughan attended the University of Phoenix from September, 2012 to February, 2013, and withdrew, due to an altercation in which James Coppi (Car Warriors 2011) called his wife a whore, when the University disciplined William for refusing to "respect the confidentiality" of James Coppi.

In March of 2013, William Mortensen Vaughan became a member of Veterans in Film and Television.

April 1, 2013, William Mortensen Vaughan was inducted into American Legion Hollywood Post 43, after being introduced to the organization by Todd H. Mathus.

William Mortensen Vaughan made the Dean's List at Westwood College's Los Angeles campus, June, 2013.

In September, 2013, William Mortensen Vaughan scored so well on his entrance exam at DeVry University that he received a $20,000 Career Catalyst Scholarship; he scored so well on the math portion of the exam that he was accepted into the Gaming and Simulation Programming program.

Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. (November 2010)

William Mortensen Vaughan attended 4H meetings at the home of Orren and Stanley Walker, who were victims of the infamous Hi-Fi Murders in Ogden, Utah, when William was eleven years old; William also attended Mormon church services in the same chapel that Orren Walker attended before and after the Hi-Fi Murders, which chapel was across the street from the Walker residence, on Kiesel Avenue, between 15th and 17th Streets. This chapel later became an Apostolic Assembly of Faith, and another Mormon chapel was built, occupying the northern (15th Street) end of the block, between Kiesel Avenue and Washington Boulevard.

William Mortensen Vaughan moved to Los Angeles, California while on Retirement Leave from the U.S. Army, in mid-November, 2010, to help advance the entertainment career of his wife, Libertad Green. They purchased a home in Los Angeles County, but sold it and moved to southern Virginia in the summer and autumn of 2015.

Although William Mortensen Vaughan considers his five-year foray into the film and television industry a financial failure, he was able to sell the single-story home he mortgaged in Los Angeles County for enough profit to pay off his mortgage and buy a two-story home, in southern Virginia, without a mortgage. His home in Virginia had approximately twice the square footage and twice the acreage as the one in California.

William Mortensen Vaughan became one of the Top Ten Luxor Blackjack by Yazino Players in the world in 2019.

William's three times great grandmother, Eleanor O'Bannon Vaughan, was U.S. Marine Corps Lieutenant Presley O'Bannon's first cousin. Lieutenant O'Bannon is the Marine whose expedition "to the shores of Tripoli" is memorialized in the U.S. Marine Corps hymn.

One of William's great grandfathers, Luke Wright Osborn, was a veteran of underage military service, on the side of the Union, in the Civil War.

One of William's great grandfathers, Luther Clay Vaugan, was a veteran of underage military service, on the side of the Union, during the Civil War.

As of 2020, William Mortensen Vaughan, alias "Lord Vaughan" and "AUSXmasCarol," was among the top 1% of the Chezz players in the world. Chezz is an online form of Chess in which the players play in real time, and are not required to wait their turn. Chezz has been downloaded more than 100,000 times.

William served under the command of Lloyd Austin when Lloyd was the Commanding General of the U.S. Army's 10th Mountain Light Infantry Division, before Lloyd became President Joe Biden's Secretary of Defense. William and Lloyd served together again at Victory Base Camp, during Operation Iraqi Freedom VI, when Lloyd was the Commanding General of the 18th Airborne Corps.

On February 8, 2022, William's Alliance, LordVonsLegion, in the Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) video game, Call of Antia, reached #7 in the game's top ten Alliances, world-wide! By February 11, 2022, it reached #3! Call of Antia is a match-3, base building game which was released October 8, 2021. Since then, it has been downloaded more than a million times.

William published an e-book titled The Genealogy of William Mortensen Vaughan, on Amazon, on Halloween, 2023.