Daniel Crawley:  

Hi there everybody! After HS I hung around Sptbg a little while working at A&P. Then I moved to the big city Atlanta which I always had wanted to do. Had a neat job there as a mechanic on fill machines that put condiments, no not condoms...you know ketchup and stuff, into those little plastic pouches. Then wound up "crawling back" to Sptbg 'cause I was spending as much as I was making! What was a budget!?! Anyway got a fantastic job at CATCO in Sptbg repairing and installing restaurant equipment and after a year or so decided to try the USAF in 1981. I wound up in Frankfurt, Germany, another big city I loved, for 3 years as a Aircraft Mechanic on C130, C9, and T39's. I also had a part time job at the base theater there as the Asst Mgr. Then to Sacramento, CA for a year as a Crew Chief on C130's. I also had two part time side jobs there working for two different fellas from the off base church I was going to. One was a house painter and the other an Australian entomologist, we trapped and dissected Fruit Flies after treating fruit orchards with non pesticide pheromone strips. The pheromone was suppose to confuse the male fly so he couldn't mate with the female and deposit her eggs into the fruit, eventually destroying it. Mid 1985 I got out of the USAF after my four year hitch and went to work for St. Lucia Airways, based out of Miami as a Flight Mechanic. My first trip with them was four months in Khartoum, Sudan for a World Food Program. What an eye opening experiance to the third world!!! Other cool places I spent several months in were St Lucia, Zaire (The Congo), Angola, Ethiopia, Belgium, and Tenerife. Then that company went bust and I wound up here in Crestview, FL back in mid '87. Been here ever since still working in aviation, 18 years with Tepper Aviation as a flight mechanic traveling all over the world with the a...Expand for more