Doug Carruthers:  

As far as my life story, I've never sat down and thought about the where's, the why's and the what the heck was I thinking, but I'll give it a shot.... After high school I joined the Navy. My first tour of duty was at Whidbey Island and I was back in Spokane almost every weekend partying. Needless to say, I was a bit disillusioned of what the Navy was all about. After 3 years at Whidbey, I reenlisted to get stationed in Hawaii and become an aircrewman and fly on the Navy's P-3 (a patrol plane used to track and neutralize submarines). This was quite an adventure. During my first year of being there, we deployed to the Philippines for 6 months. While on deployment I got to see not only the Philippines but Singapore, Bangkok, Hong Kong and a tiny little archipelago called Diego Garcia in the middle of the Indian Ocean. It was quite an eye opening experience. Seeing how other people in the world lived and learning some of their " life values" made me realize just how lucky I was. During my second deployment, I met my wife Nancy. She worked at the Baskin-Robbins that was on the base in the Philippines. We dated for the whole six month deployment. When I got back to Haw...Expand for more