I spent 14 years in the Navy. Served 2 years aboard the USS Charles F Adams DDG-2 where I became the Master Helmsman in the North Atlantic Seas. She was the first to have four boilers and an aluminum superstructure which cracked in the North Atlantic, to only be held together by expansion plates. Been on two Mediterranean cruises and spent six austral summers at Mcmurdo Station, Antarctica. I met my first wife while working at a military entrance processing station for the New Haven Recruiting Command in Derby, Connecticut. During Desert Storm I served with the Mobile Utility Support Commend, providing mobile electric generators. Thankfully we weren't needed, but I do have a cool pair of glasses that fit inside a gas mask just encase we had to deploy.

On my second marriage to My Luv Lysara. Have a son named Daniel and several step daughters. I drove a truck for 4 years, and though I was in my late 30s early 40s, because I looked like a kid, I was treated like a kid.  One waitress got after me for wearing my Navy jacket, seeing the First Class Crow and having an understanding of the military, she knew it couldn't have been mine and she thought that was disrespectful, I assured her that my father gave me the jacket and said it was ok for me to wear it.  So that's why my call sign was the Okcitykid.  Currently I work as a computer operator.