After graduating high school in 1979, I joined the Air Force in July the same year. I served the next 23 years in the Air Force in garden spots like New Jersey, Korea, Florida, Texas, Colorado, The Pentagon, Washington, DC, Frankfurt, Germany, South Dakota, Korea (again), Japan, and finally Alaska. I retired from the Air Force in May 2002 and became a police officer with the Anchorage, Alaska Police Department for a couple of years. I lucked up and was offered a civil service job back with the Air Force in Alaska in October 2003, and have been working with the Department of Defense since then. I am married and have two kids, a daughter who graduated from the University of Alaska, Anchora