William Irvine:  

Life Yo, Class of '87. When I left HS, I continued to work at the Grand Hotel until the Fall. I went to the University of Montevallo for 3 semesters; I was not making the grade, so I came home to Montrose and worked at Jubilee Landscape for the next 2-1/2 yrs. When I turned 21, I joined the USAF and left for Basic Training in Sept 1990. Basic was in San Antonio, TX. After 6 weeks of basic, I shipped out for Tech School at Sheppard AFB, Witchita Falls, TX. I spent the next 4 months learning my new career field in A/C and Refrigeration. My first duty assignment was in Merced (MerDead) Cali where I spend the next 3-1/2 yrs of my life learning my job and the ways of the AF. I was at Castle AFB from 1991-1994. During this time, I deployed to Saudi Arabia, twice; I went to Japan for 30 days. In 1994, I volunteered to go to Korea for a year and returned to Maxwell AFB, Montgomery, AL in 1995. I spent the next 7 years at Maxwell. I bought a house in Prattville, AL. All the while remaining single. I started dating a girl that lived in Atlanta. We dated long distance for quite a while and I was transferred to Keesler AFB, Biloxi, MS in Nov 2002. Shortly thereafter, I proposed to her on Christmas night, 2002. As it seemed, this was the girl of my dreams. We were married on 23 Aug 2003. Life progressed. Soon after, I retrained into the Communications-Computer Operator career field where I learned the techncal aspects of being a Network Administrator with the AF. After graduating from COMM tech school in June 2004, I started my new career at the 81st Communications Squadron as NCOIC, Defense Me...Expand for more