Dr. Frank G. Forrest comes from a Navy family, but he joined the Army. Upon graduation from the U. S. Military Academy, West Point, NY in 1939 he was commissioned as a 2nd Lt. During his career he served as an infantry officer and Army aviator in various command and staff officer positions. This included service as an infantry company commander in the Aleutian Islands during World War II. During the Korean War he served as an infantry battalion commander and as a staff aviation officer. Frank retired from the Army in 1964 with the rank of Colonel and senior Army aviator rating.

He then joined Embry Riddle Aeronautical Institute in Miami, Florida. Frank played a major role the relocation of the Institute to Daytona Beach in 1965 and the subsequent development of the new campus. He participated in the initial design and development of college level aviation education curricula leading to the transition of Embry Riddle from an institute to an accredited university. While at Embry Riddle Frank attended graduate school. He obtained an MS in Education from Stetson University, DeLand, FL, in 1969 and a Ph.D. from US International University, San Diego, CA in 1976. During studies in connection with his doctoral dissertation Frank became acquainted with Robert S. Hartman's work in scientific axiology. Upon retiring from Embry Riddle in 1979 as a Vice President, Frank has devoted his time and effort, aside from going fishing now and then, to studying Hartman's works and writing about the science of value. He has concentrated on the application of this science to ethics. The discipline that evolved from this effort initially was called valuemetrics. The latest version is called value logic.

In the late 1980's and early 1990's he taught valuemetrics in a series of research projects in military ethics instruction. The participants in these studies were college level Reserve Officer Training Corps cadets at Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, Stetson University, University of Central Florida, and Auburn University. He replicated this research in 1995 and early 1996 with members of the Basic Law Enforcement Course at the Dayton Beach Community College Criminal Justice Training Center. Research from these classes indicated that persons who studied valuemetrics gained a significantly improved change in their value vision acuity as measured by the Value Vision Chart, but no change in this capacity was indicated by the students in the control groups.

Based on his experience in teaching valuemetrics coupled with the encouragement of his associate, Frank decided to write a simplified version of this subject. The book on value logic that resulted from this effort presently is the text used in a course in professional ethics offered by the Daytona Beach Community College.

Frank is the author of two books on formal axiology, (1) Valuemetrics: The Science of Personal and Professional Ethics, Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi B. V., 1994 and (2) Ethical Decision Making for the 21st Century, self-published, 2001. He is a member of the Board of Directors, R. S. Hartman Institute for Formal and Applied Axiology, University of Tennessee.