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Fore warning, I dislike writing very much even after 20 years, some things never change so bare with me. ?
Well a little on what I have been up to over the past 20 years. As you all know I didn’t walk the isle with you as I was short a few classes, but with a pushy Army recruiter and a great school counselor I made up the classes I was short by July and was given credit for graduating in ’89. I left for the Army in Jan ’90 to become a mechanic. Yes, a glorious Grease Monkey! LOL. At my first duty station I was deployed to Desert Storm and was there for 5 months, I stayed on active duty for about 7 years and decided that was enough, left the Army and moved back to Bellingham where I joined the Army National Guard. I have had a few jobs which I enjoyed and to pass the time, as well as figure out what I wanted to do. Finally in 2000, I had the Opportunity to work at a Maintenance Facility in Sedro Woolley for the Army National Guard as a DOD Civilian. I was hired as a Production Controller but I had to go back to school to learn the new field (Army). So I have 2 hats, 1 full time DOD Civilian and 1 part time Army NG.
In 2001 my wife (Kelly) and I found each other on the internet yes an internet romance?. She works at local Doctors office as a receptionist. We got married in August of 2001 she has a son Tyler, who was 3 at the time we got married
In 2003 our state’s 81st Brigade was mobilized as most of you remember, we returned in the Spring on ’05 to pick up our lives where we left off the best we could. The fall of 2007 I was getting very bored and stuck as a sergeant in my unit. I decided to make a career change again; I found a new and exciting opportunity in the Army National Guard “Satellite telecommunications operations”. Our States 81st Brigade got called up yet again. So here I am in Iraq Again… (Hopefully last time) I supervise a team of 4 soliders, and we have a mobile Satellite trailer, and a command post node that provide primary base communication for a multinational and multi-organizational post by providing both Secure/Non-Secure Voice/Data, to include phone capabilities back to US , as well as civilian internet so service members can stay in touch back home. at a very small Camp in south Western Iraq. We hope to be home by the beginning of August.
Places I have lived / worked
Germany, Desert Storm, Ft Ord (Monterey) CA, Ft Carson (Colo Springs) CO, Teagu, Korea, Iraq(2X)
