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Ted

In Iraq...

About Me

I'm originally from sunny Mesa, AZ. Left my beautiful home state right after high school for college at the United States Military Academy in West Point, NY. After graduation, I was stationed in Georgia for about a year before moving to Fort Lewis, WA where I currently work. I live in Tacoma, WA with my wonderful fiance, Heather. I enjoy my work on a day to day basis, but the jury is still out on staying in "for life" as they call it. Not sure what I want to do once I stop playing GI Joe for a living, but anything from law school, federal law enforcement, or writing comes to mind as alternatives. I like anything to do with water and have been involved with swimming my whole life. Other than that, I'm a pretty simple guy, enjoying what I can out of life.

My Interests

movies, books, swimming, scuba diving, travel.

I'd like to meet:

Never really know how to answer this one...

Music:

U2, Metallica, Tom Petty, Dave Matthews, David Gray, Nine Inch Nails, The Killers, My Chemical Romance, Vendetta Red and many more

Movies:

No particular order: The Goonies, Fight Club, Swingers, Sideways, Saving Silverman, Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon, A Clockwork Orange, any Indianna Jones movies, Chasing Amy, Dogma, SwimFan (only because it makes swimmers look cool and popular in high school, ha ha), anything by Hitchcock, Dirty Harry movies, Munich, Scarface, Zoolander, Goodfellas, The Big Lebowski, ummm I'm sure there's more....

Television:

Seinfeld, Lost, The Office, I hate anything related to Reality TV, 24, Nip/Tuck....thats about it, don't watch that much TV

Books:

Anything by Chuck Palahniuk (author of fight club and many other novels), 1984, We Were Soldiers Once....and Young, All the Kings Men, John Grisham novels for a diversion, Gates of Fire, Tides of War, A Clockwork Orange, Walden Pond by Henry David Thoreau, Citizen Soldiers, Endurance (the survival story of a failed Antartic expedition in 1915), the Illiad, ummm Curious George and Dr. Seuss books probably round out the list....

Heroes:

My friends in the service, my Dad, ummmm..... as far as history goes, Dwight Eisenhower, Mark Twain....maybe not heroes, just people I admire.