Former Aerographer's Mate at United States Navy
1976 - 1985
Aerographer's Mate (weather guesser) · August 1976 to April 1984 Schooled at Lakehurst NJ. Stationed at Naval Air Station North Island San Diego California; Naval Station Adak Alaska, and Naval Air Station Brunswick Maine
Former Russian / Serbocroatian Interpreter at United States Navy / National Security Agency 1985 - 1997
Russian / Serbocroatian Interpreter, Direct Support Augmentee (in the field), Analyst, Report Writer,
Schooled at: Defense Language Institute, Monterey CA, Goodfellow AFB San Angelo TX, Corry Station Pensacola FL, and at the UK's Special Communications Unit, Language School, Leydene England.
Based out of: Misawa Japan, Rota Spain, Fort Meade Maryland, Edzell Scotland, and Souda Bay Crete.
Deployed to: Sea of Japan, Bering Sea, Sea of Okhotsk, South China Sea, Yellow Sea, Bay of Bengal, North Arabian Sea, Persian Gulf, Mediterranean Sea, Aegean Sea, Adriatic Sea, Gulf of Sidra,
Aboard the Aircraft Carriers: Midway, Coral Sea, John F Kennedy, and America, and the Cruisers: Reeves, Arkansas, Vincennes, and Leyte Gulf, and the Destroyer Oldendorf, and the Frigate Francis Hammond.
Flew with VQ-2 over Bosnia and Herzegovina as a mission specialist.
I have worked and played in the USA, Hawaii, Alaska, Canada, Japan, S. Korea, Thailand, The Philippines, Pakistan, Kenya, Bahrain, Iraq, Kuwait, Turkey, Israel, Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, Great Britain, Greece, Yugoslavia, and the Democratic Peoples Republic of Kalifornia.