I grew up in Coventry, RI until about 20 when I moved to Providence into a place my roommates and I called the Castle. Wild parties ensued. Then I needed a real job, so I called a number I found in the paper and somehow ended up calling a Navy recruiting office. I entered the Navy on Sep. 12th, 1997 to be a part of what they called Advanced Electronics Computer Field. After almost 2 years of varying schools to learn to do my job I entered the Fleet as a Fire Controlman 3rd class. I specialized in the Phalanx Close-in Weapon System (CiWS for short). Basically a 4500 round per minute "lead laser" that actually fired depleted uranium or tungsten rounds. I also traveled around the Globe, managing to visit Cuba, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Antigua, Spain, France, Greece, Italy, Cyprus, Slovenia, Croatia, and Turkey before making it to Canada and Ireland on my own. Then I had the pleasure of a Gulf deployment where I visited Spain again (for the 4th time), Sicily, Turkey again, Jordan, The UAE, and Bahrain. After almost 10 years I got out of the Navy and moved to Raleigh, NC where I now work for Carolina Handling as a Field Service Technician. Basically it means I drive around in a gigantinormous red van full of tools and grease and do maintenance on, and repair fork lifts. In the pursuit of this, I managed to learn that 8500lb fork lifts are best stopped with the brakes provided instead of my left foot. I also learned that my left foot is incredibly tough and must now be registered as a deadly weapon.
Click here to see the gay-ass redirect that the losers running myspace keep putting in my links!
