Robert L. McMahon:  

Life After SFP I attended Queens College and worked part-time at Ohrbach's (Queens Center Mall). Met my wife there actually. Dropped out of Queens College and worked at J.P. Morgan Bank; continued college at night. Tried returning to Queens College, but didn't like it much. Worked nights at Macy's in Elmhurst, went back to J.P. Morgan and night school in '81. Six months later transferred jobs and schools to TIAA/CREF and NYU. In '83 I enlisted in the USMCR and spent 4 years as a Weapons Co. grunt (rockets and demolitions). Between 1980 amd 1986 I dated a wonderful girl from Middle Village I met at Macy's; a graduate of both Mary Louis and SJU; she became a PA and in 1986 we went our seperate ways. Re-met my old girlfriend from Ohrbach's and married her in '87. Graduated NYU with a BA in Literature. My senior paper was about the James Jones WWII trilogy - FROM HERE TO ETERNITY, THE THIN RED LINE, and WHISTLE. Few critics saw it, but his trilogy was a feminine allegory. In 1992 our first child was born, Colin, and in early '93 we moved to Jersey and I worked for a Princeton based hedge fund. Today we have three children, Colin, Julia and Clara. In 1995 I left the hedge fund and while working in various sales and consulting roles I became aquainted with syndicated columnist, journalist, and best-selling author, David Hackworth. Began a friendship and working relationship with him that lasted eight years - he died in 2005 after a long battle with cancer. Became his editor, chief-...Expand for more