Mark Christman:  

Life I also have a profile on Myspace Some of you know, I didn't graduate from FHS. In the middle of Senior year, I moved in with my father and transferred to Brighton High (needed 5 credits instead of the 7 I would have needed at FHS). To my shame and regret, I didn't keep in touch with folks I'd been friends with. To you all, my sincere apologies. That out of the way, after BHS, I got my A.S. in Communication and Media Arts from MCC in August of '91. Spent a year failing out of St. John Fisher and generally trying to do too much at once and messing it all up. Along the way, I was the 965th recipient of Civil Air Patrol's General Carl A. Spaatz leadership award for completion of the CAP cadet program in October 1989, the month before I turned 21 and would no longer be a cadet. While still at FHS, I'd joined the US Army Reserves with the 401st Civil Affairs Company out of Webster (they're now designated a Battalion). In 1991, we were activated for Operation Desert Shield and Storm. I was part of a team posted with the 14th Military Police Brigade out in the middle of the Saudi desert. For my service in the conflict, I was awarded the Army Commendation Medal. Later, I joined a Drill Sergeant company but never went through the training prior to leaving the reserves in 1994. After failing out of Fisher, I was pretty low and didn't see a whole lot of prospects for myself. Having enjoyed my Army Reserve and Civil Air Patrol experiences, I tried joining the active military. At the time there was down sizing going on, and pretty much all that was open ...Expand for more