Richard Koch:  

materials handler until I went in the Navy a few Months later. After the Navy I landed a payroll coordinator job at Kforce and I have been working here ever since. Military I served in the US Navy for 7.5 yrs. I went to Great Lakes, IL for recruit training and airman apprentice training. My 1st duty station was the USS America. I served aboard the Big Dawg for almost 4 yrs. During my time aboard I trained and became a Disbursing Clerk and managed about 500 payroll accounts. Also during that time I was part of military operations in support of Desert Shield, Bosnia, Somolia, and Haiti. I helped decommission the Big Dawg before transferring to my new command in Scotia, NY. While in Scotia I was responsible for the pay accounts for various Navy operations throughout the northeast US. Shortly before the end of my assignment I was processing travel claims for that region as well. My final duty assignment was at Ballston Spa where I helped processing everything for both the Personnel and the Disbursing side of operations with the students that came through the facility for training as well as the service members assigned there full time.