Douglas Stearns:  

Facebook me! Douglas Stearns was born on 10 Jan 65 in Reno, Nevada. I was a rather precocious toddler who talked my parents into moving to Georgetown, Texas at the tender age of 2. I graduated high school at Georgetown and was voted most likely to fly a beer can. My goal was to achieve a spiritual plane where the Energy of the Everything comes and fills you with the Uttermost and there you are, you¿ve gone Nowhere and achieved perfect Nothing (as taken from my yearbook!). Far out, but things just didn¿t work out that way. I entered the Air Force on 4 Oct 83. After completing Tech school at Shepherd AFB, TX I was stationed at Kelly AFB, TX working LOGAIR (joined the Air Force to see the world and never made it out of Texas). I met and married Virgie Navedo, and had 4 children (Jesse, Crystal, Nikki, and Megan). Just like that and nearly that fast too! While assigned to Kelly AFB, I participated in Operation JUST CAUSE. Temperatures in San Antonio dropped to 8F during this operation, bringing new meaning to freezing! I left Kelly AFB in April 1990 for a remote assignment at Galena Airport, AK while Virgie and the kids remained in San Antonio. The coldest day of the year was ¿68F, redefining the cold standard previously set during the JUST CAUSE operation¿first experience with nose hair freezing. I received a follow-on assignment to Elmendorf, AK in 1991. Virgie was eager to move and meet up with me once again in Alaska, but was not really prepared for the hassle of making the arrangements alone while I was still in Galena. Well, she knew this would not always be the case, so she endured. I was blessed with being assigned to Ramp, Cargo Processing, Special Handling, Loadplanning, Total Quality Management Instructor, Training Manager, and Passenger Service. I was beginning to think nobody loved me since I moved so often! We then had our 5th and final child in Alaska (Michael). Had a horrible experience with my vasectomy, but we wont go into that now. If we have another child now we will call him Houdini. (Lets see him get out of those knots!) I then moved to Scott AFB in April 99, but Virgie and the kids followed later after school was out. Was this becoming a trend of her moving without my help? She was not impressed that I got out of the work once again. I was originally assigned as the Aircraft Delay Validator for contingency missions in AMC/DONCM. One afternoon a couple of weeks into this new assignment I went to supervisor and said I was finished with my work. She said, "For the day?" I replied, "No, for the week." It was Tuesday, so she started giving me more tasks and became rather upset with my predecessor. So I became the Program Manager for Cat A Commercial Cargo Movements, and project lead for many other initiatives like the Barcodes Rates Initiative, World Wide Express, and the MRM-15 PowerTrack commercial billing for MILAIR s...Expand for more