Michael Johnson:  

Well, I did not graduate with my Walker classmates due to the fact that my family moved to Texas in July 1972 but my connections and loyalties were always there. I moved to Mesquite Texas and attended Mesquite High School, home of the Skeeters I enjoyed my time there and was in the JROTC and enjoyed that immensly. I did graduate in June 1974 and went into the Marine Corps 2 days later. I spent three years in the Corps and was stationed in Camp Pendleton CA and then at Ft. Meade as a Marine Guard for NSA. While I was there I met my wife and in August 1977 I got married to Jackie. I got out of the Corps in June 1977 and moved to Tennessee for 3 months, got tired of being a civilian and went into the Army. We were at Ft. Meade for 18 months, where my daughter Leigh was born. We got orders for Wertheim Germany from March 1979 till April 1982, from there we went to Ft. Devens MA, for 6 months, to Ft. Lewis WA for 19 months, back to Ft. Devens for 11 months and then to Berlin, GE for 5 years. We were there when the Berlin Wall fell. While we were here my son Bill was born in Feb 1990. I was trained as a computer engineer and did that job in Berlin and when the time came to get out I was medically discharged due to injuries that I had gotten on active duty. We moved to Maryland and I got a job at the Pentagon with Contel/GTE and we were there until 1998 when I was offered a job with Mantech in Germany again. We were there from 1998 till 2006 and along the way I went back to GTE/General Dynamics. I was an embedded contractor with 1st Infantry Division and was deployed to Bosnia in 2001, Kosovo in 2002 and Iraq in 2004-1005. After I returned from Iraq I took my family to Spain and Ireland for vacations. After our time in Germany we were offered a position at Charlottesville VA and we took ...Expand for more