I was born in Red hook, Brooklyn, NY. Mostly an Italian family. They're all a buncha fruit loops. I grew up in Staten Island playing coco leavio, stick ball, football and tons of other “round the block†games. I went to Curtis H.S. and then onto an engineering college. Maritime College was great but it wasn't for me at the time. I left and joined the Navy in '97. I went to Virginia Beach, Virginia with a F-14 Tomcat squadron (yeh, the same plane from Top Gun), VF-101 Grim Reapers and then to VF-103 Jolly Rogers. I worked on the airframe/structure and hydraulics systems that control the flight controls and landing gear. Most of the job is back at the "Beach" until we go aboard an aircraft carrier and that's where the fun and hell begins. We launch and recover the jets aboard the ship and fix whatever's broken. Majority of my deployments have been in the Persian Gulf messing with those FUCKERS over there. The flight deck gets in upwards of 130+ degrees, while wearing a long sleeved turtle neck, heavy cami pants, gloves, helmet, life vest, thick leather boots and a tool belt while humping equipment all over a pitching and rolling deck with 60+ aircraft taxiing around. CHAOS!! I wouldn't trade it for anything! Met tons of great friends (Nacho, Jimmy, Benni, Tommy, Tonnie, Chappy, Del, Corby, SStg Skinny Bitch, Kimball, Lerch, Tolpie, Tugg-a-loo, Martin & Smitty and plenty more). I’ve been to tons of spectacular countries in Europe, Asia and Africa and been to the hot, smelly arm pit of the world – the Middle East. AHON (AssHole Of Nowhere)!! Oh, and I worked on super hornets. Flying pieces of technologically advanced SHIT!!! Now I transferred to NAS Fallon, Nevada where I work on equipment pulled from planes. Fallon is flat, hot and DRY!!! It is abso-fuckin-lutely awesome out here. An hour from Reno and Lake Tahoe. Dirt bikes, off roading, drag racing, shooting… So much to do. Lovin life!!!
