Michael Mason:  

Life After graduation I basically just worked, moved to Long Island, and spent a lot of time camping, and just relaxing. By 1973, I decided that this plan needed adjustment, so I joined the Air Force. There, I spent most of my off duty time fishing, going to school, and camping. It was a great decision. For the first time I felt at home. My first job was as a Statistician, and I did that for about four and a half years from Missouri and North Dakota to Korea, and finally at Ramstein Air Base Germany. While I was at Ramstein it was decided that I should be a counselor, given my undergrad major. After four years in Germany I went to back to North Dakota for a second tour, which was a paradise of fishing and camping. Finishing there, I went to South Dakota, and then back to Germany for six more years. Having completed college, and most of Grad school, I took some time to indulge my love of body building seriously, while studying martial arts and marathoning. My work primarily consisted of running a counseling center for substance abuse, and Equal Opportunity for four of the years, finishing the last two as the European Inspector for those programs at 29 bases from Turkey to Norway. After that tour was over I was assigned to Headquarters Air Force Reserve in Georgia, and supervised the counseling offices at 106 Reserve bases, as well as establishing Family Support offices at each base during "Desert Storm". Since it was the military, I also had a wartime job in Air Base Ground Defense/Terrorism Control. It was interesting (even amusing) going from couselor to soldier and back. Mostly it just invovled keeping the "Bader Meinhof Gang", a German terror group away from US facilities and assets, looking for bombs and somtimes just manning the perimeter bunkers during high threat periods. Al...Expand for more