[Someday]

The Navy was an excellent opportunity and it changed the direction of my life. Before this, all I really knew was life in western Pennsylvania, with a few vacations to some of America's vacation spots. My neighborhood was a melting pot of Greek, Italian, Irish , Polish, Ukrainian and American working class people all thrown together working in the same mills and going to the same schools. But actually leaving that place and going to other countries was an experience I would recommend to everyone.
I liked the military too, but it was also a very unsettling experience to be constantly exchanging posturing gestures of tactical dominance with the Soviets. All the time, back and forth it went. Both in the air and on the sea, it was a constant battle for tactical supremacy. I began my career admiring the F-14 and it's weaponry and abilities, and ended it disdaining the very need for it's presence on earth. All these massive resources spent to protect political ideals was decidedly ugly to me. But then again, I also was converted to Christianity in the Navy, and I think that had a lot of impact on how I felt about what we were doing out there.

Blessings