~June 25th, 1998- I joined the Navy
~June-Sept. '98- Basic Training, Division #311 Great Lakes, IL
~Sept.- Dec '98- Attended Engineman "A" School Great Lakes, IL
~Jan.- May '99- Stationed in San Diego, CA, As part of the Precommissioning Crew of USS O'kane (DDG 77) Attended several
schools to learn different aspects of shipboard work.
~May '99 -Aug. '99- Stationed in Bath, Maine on board USS O'kane. Getting the ship ready to sail to Hawaii.
~Aug '99 - May '02- Stationed in Pearl Harbor, HI inboard USS O'kane while there I worked in the Auxiliaries Division helping to
maintain various types of machinery from Air Conditioning and Refrigeration to Galley and Trash room equipment to Reverse
Osmosis Units, Anchor Windlass, and Small Boats or "RHIBs"
~August 8th 2000- Married Stacy Jean Wilds. Waimanalo, HI. I met Stacy in High School.
~Aug. '01 - Jan.'02- I was deployed to the Persian Gulf visiting Singapore, Thailand, Bahrain, UAE, India, Australia, East Timor,
and back to Australia.
~May '02- Went to school in San Diego, CA to learn about outboard engines on small boats.
~June '02-Dec '03- Stationed at Explosives Ordnance Disposal Unit Eleven in Whidbey Island Wa. Working on Outboard engines
from 55 hp to 225 hp, Was a coxswain for various small boats ranging from 10 feet to 33 feet...for various EOD/Diving
operations...Including work with a British Parachute team in CA, (Exercise) Mine recovery operation in Texas, as well as various
local jobs.
My Wife Stacy is halfway through her last semester of college at WWU YAY!!! ALMOST DONE!!! I'm soo proud of her. She has
done very well in school. She attended Windward Community College from August '00 - May '02 By the time she left she was the
class president and was on an academic scholarship. She's been at Western since Sept. '02 and she has attend college during the
summer almost every year she was in school! This May she will graduate with a double major in Sociology and Psychology. Well in
Washington she has been working at the YMCA with school children and volunteering with the animals at the local Humane Society.
It's Dec '03 now and I'm taking 2 weeks off to spend with my family in Michigan and then I'm going to Memphis to spend
Christmas and New Year's with Stacy's family.
I'm going to be in San Diego at Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit Three from Jan-March, to train and get ready to goto
Panama City, FL to succeed through Dive School and then on to EOD school, which is at Eglin, AFB in FL and if all goes well I
should be done with my training sometime around June 2005.
Stacy is going to stay at WWU to finish her degree and then move to Florida in the summer
~Feb. '04- The last two months have been both good and bad. Stacy is in Washington and I'm in California. It's never easy to be
away for long time. Although she did fly down here to visit for a week during Valentine's Day. She will also fly down to Florida and
stay for two weeks in March. I have a week left then I drive cross country to Florida
~May '04- I graduated Dive School, it was a good experience but I'm glad it's over. Now I have to get through EOD School...I don't
start for two months a delay caused by too many people going through at once...so I'm going to take some time off and go see
Stacy and drive back with her on her way to Orlando, She received an internship at Disney World....She couldn't be more
excited..It'll be really good for her to get past college and do something as cool as this. .
~Aug & Sept '04- Charley, Francis, Ivan & Jeanne...
~Dec '04- I've made it through most of EOD school, I have one more test to take after the holidays and then I'll be finished testing,
but will have a few more classes left, if all goes well I should graduate sometime in April. Stacy is having alot of fun in Orlando and
has been given a second internship extending her til the summer.