Joined the Army right after school. I stayed in the Army till 1997 when I got out for a few years and stayed in Europe and opened a motorcycle shop and a security company. In 2001 our world changed and I closed my shop and the security company and went back in the Army. I have been on 9 combat tours starting in 1989 and just got back from my last tour in Iraq in 2009. I am now a Platoon Sgt and doing a deployment to Afghanistan.