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I was born on July 23rd, 1984 in the city of South Bend, Indiana; literally, 5 minutes from the university of Notre Dame where they had filmed the movie "Rudy". I'm currently residing now in a town called Granger--30 minutes east of South Bend.
After successfully graduating high school in May of 2003, (still working at McDonald's at the time), during the fall of that year, I signed up for the United States Navy. Working at the newly built Hooter's Rest. (to which I applied for a cook position), and during that time, I was going to DEP--Delayed Entry Program with the Navy. I proudly served for my country for 4 years and honorably discharged on 21JAN2008.
I was stationed aboard the USS Kitty Hawk CV-63; to where it's base was located in South Eastern Japan in a city called "Yokosuka". This aircraft was the Navy's ONLY forward deployed aircraft carrier to which it held F-16's, F-18's, and one point in time the Super Hornet. I liked the Navy because I got to travel for free; saw some wonderful places...and mainly on the western pacific...aka "the West Pac" group.Howver, during our time of travel between port calls, we did a lot of work.
I was in the engineering department, but worked with the Auxilaries division...maintaining and preserving the aircraft elevator machinery rooms (paint, clean, stuff like that) in a duration of 2 weeks at a time between port calls and at a 4 month summer deployment. I've been to Guam, Hong Kong, Sydney and Brisbane, Australia, South Korea (Sehoul, I think), Malaysia, Singapore, and yes, Thailand. (<---which really frieghtened me to be honest). I have recieved alot of credit for the qualifications that I've completed while being at sea. I was in the top 90% of the division who had the most "quals" completed. Anywhere from general qualifications to a scene leader while manning the fire hose (and yes, I was a fireman as well)--aka the rate (job) I had was a Machinist Mate Fireman (MMFN).
Now, "slinging" burgers at Burger King in which I'm getting tired of going between different jobs. But hey, gotta make the money somehow right? So, that's pretty much about it for now. If anything else changes, I'll let y'all know! =)
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