Darla Patrick:  

Hmmm, where to begin... After I graduated from AHS, I was in a traveling company of "Jesus Christ Superstar." Then I moved to Glens Falls, then Rochester, NY, where I worked and acted in a community theater. I moved to midtown Manhattan during the "summer of Sam" (1977) to help manage a friend who was starting up a cabaret act. That fell though so that fall, I enlisted in the US Army, was placed into the first class to ever train men & women together in basic training right through to the end of Military Police School (Fort McClellan, AL). I was stationed with the 571st MP Company at Fort Ord, CA and with the 221st MP Company, in Vicenza, Italy, with the Southern European Task Force (SETAF). After my honorable discharge (Ft. Devens, MA), I became a stereotypical yardbird and moved back to Monterey, CA for a year where I worked as a bartender at Shakey's Pizza. Then I went back to Vermont (where I was born) for a while and worked as a correctional officer (in a medium security facility that housed men only). In '85, I moved back to CA, where the fun began. My law enforcement training secured me a job as the central station supervisor at Bel Air Patrol, an armed security company whose clients included celebrities and high profile personnel. I was lured away from that job to work at Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank as a security manager. Added to the daily operations and production assignments, I supervised security on such TV shows as "Murphy Brown," "Designing Women," "Night Court," "China Beach," (to name a few) and several motion pictures filmed in the 80s & 90s. I then moved to HBO Corporate HQ in NYC as one of their 5 in-house security team members. Unfortunately, even tha...Expand for more