John Powers:  

A year after graduating high school, I enlisted in the Air Force. I was stationed in upstate NY, but my job as an aircraft crew chief took me to many places around the world. After my 4 year enlistment was up, I returned to Long Island, got married, and started college under the G.I. Bill. I graduated from SUNY Stony Brook in 1974 with a degree in Political Science, and then went to law school at Oklahoma City University School of Law. While there, my first son, Jason, was born in 1976. After graduation, I returned to New York to take the NY bar exam. I was sworn in as an attorney in NY in 1978, and soon thereafter, I re-joined the Air Force as an Air Force attorney (JAG officer). My first assignment was back in upstate NY for 3 years, where I served as a criminal defense attorney. My second son, Justin, was born there in 1981. From there, I was next stationed in Illinois as a contracts attorney. Then to Wiesbaden, Germany for 3 years as a medical malpractice attorney for all Air Force medical facilities in Europe. A divorce followed, and I was single for the next 10 years. After Germany, in 1987 I was stationed in England for 2 years, serving as the senior base attorney at RAF Mildenhall Air Base. In 1989, I was reassigned back to America, as a circuit military judge for the southeastern U.S. In 1992, I moved to Tucson, AZ, where I was the senior base attorney for the next 3 years. In 1995, I was promoted to the rank of Colonel, and was assigned to Japan as the Chief Circuit Military Judge for the Pacific. While in Japan, I got remarried, to Major Martha Herron. This year (2016) will mark 20 years of marriage! Following that assignment, I wa...Expand for more