A guy I know through model railroading has a page set up to help people who might be searching for him online. I’ve decided to do the same. I won’t share anything that would be useful for someone trying to steal my identity (NO, I’m not telling you where I bank!)
Things I enjoy:
- Family
- Travel
- Flying gliders
- Flying airplanes
- Tinkering on BMWs
- Model Railroading
- Aerobatics
- Photography/Videography
- Reading
- Writing
- Expanding my German vocabulary
- Improving my lawn
Places I have lived:
- Oak Harbor, WA
- Memphis, TN
- Roosevelt Roads, PR
- Escondido, CA
- San Diego, CA
- Albuquerque, NM (Can still spell it, too!)
- Columbus, OH
- Pickerington, OH
- Stuttgart, Germany
- Tuebingen, Germany
- Augusta, GA
- Newport, RI
- Norfolk, VA
- Baghdad, Iraq (OK, I didn’t really live there in the traditional sense, but I was there for almost a year!)
- Wiesbaden, Germany
Schools I have attended:
- K, 1, and first part of 2, unknown
- Oak Harbor Elementary School (part of 2nd grade)
- Ella B. Allen Elementary (rest of 2nd grade)
- Valley Vista Elementary School (first year it was open, 3-4)
- Sandia Base Elementary (5-6, fondest memory is a big stack of National Geographic maps from a teacher.)
- Yorktown Junior High (7)
- Pickerington Junior High (8)
- Pickerington High School (9-10, there used to be one HS there, now there’s two)
- Stuttgart American High School (11-12)
- University of Maryland, European Division, in Stuttgart
- City Colleges of Chicago (night classes in Stuttgart)
- Eberhardt-Karls Universitaet Tuebingen
- Augusta College*
- Navy Officer Candidate School
- Navy Surface Warfare Officer School
- University of South Carolina
- Signal Officer Basic Course
- Signal Officer Advanced Course
- Combined Arms and Services Staff School
- Command and General Staff Officer Course
- Naval War College, College of Command and Staff
- Joint Information Operations Course
- Army Civilian Education System Intermediate Course
*Augusta College became Augusta State University, which became Georgia Regents University, which, uh, became Augusta University. Whew!
Places I have worked:
- Summer Hire, Panzer Kaserne, Stuttgart, Germany
- Summer Hire, Kelley Barracks, Stuttgart, Germany
- Summer Hire, Patch Barracks, Stuttgart, Germany
- Fort Gordon Arts and Crafts Center
- Worldwide Camera
- US Navy, onboard USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67)
- Phillips Junior College
- South Carolina Army National Guard
- Westinghouse Savannah River Site
- Richmond County Board of Education (Glenn Hills High School, science teacher)
- US Army Reserve
- Management Analyst, Department of the Army Civilian
- Plans Specialist, Department of the Army Civilian
- Spirit Aviation, flight instructor
My two favorite investing/finance books:
Where I have gone soaring/gliding:
- Pattonville Army Airfield, Germany
- Ridgeland, SC, USA
- Bermuda High Soaring, Lancaster, SC, USA
- Hahnweide, Kirchheim (Teck), Germany
- Lasham, UK
- Booker, UK
- London Gliding Club, Dunstable, UK
- Wasserkuppe, Germany
- Blumberg, Black Forest, Germany
- Mid-Georgia Soaring, Monroe, GA, USA (D73)
- Lagrange, GA, USA
- Roosevelt Memorial Airport, Warm Springs, GA, USA (59A)
- Turf Soaring, Phoenix, AZ, USA
- Citrus Soaring, Eustis, FL, USA
- Chilhowee, Tennessee, US
- Minden, Nevada, USA
- Nastätten, Germany
- Unterwössen, Germany
- Fränkische Fliegerschule Feuerstein, Germany
- Triple Tree Aerodrome (SC00)