Melvin Swanby:
CLASS OF 1973
East High SchoolClass of 1973
Duluth, MN
Melvin's Story
I went to UMD for two years after graduation. I was not a great student and really didn’t want to be going to college. I went into the Navy after that. I spent six years in the Navy. I had extensive training in computers, aircraft electronics and aircraft hydraulics systems. When my enlistment was done, I went to work for Datapoint Corporation. I was trained on programming and repairing telephone switches and was introduced to computer networks there. I met my wife Susan in San Antonio, Texas while working for Datapoint. I then went to work for Eaton Cor...Expand for more
poration in one of their divisions that provided computer repair services to the military. Our division was sold off twice to different companies until General Dynamics bought us up in 1999. I have been deployed with the military to Afghanistan, Bahrain, Belgium, Germany, Iraq, Korea, Kuwait, Panama and Qatar. Some of these countries multiple times. I have spent 42 years working with the military, six of those years on active duty. I retired from General Dynamics at the end of 2016 after my last deployment to Afghanistan and a short assignment in Belgium.
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