Robert Michael Jr:  

Dear Friends, Soldiers, Countrymen, ,...My Life came out somewhat like the following...and so far so good! I went to Timucuan elementary in Jax 1st - 6th grade, played Little league baseball out at Navy Ortega Lakeshore (NOL) Blue Angel Field, went to Jeb Stuart Jr High where many will remember me playing baseball, soccer, and football with them before the bussing of my little sister into the inner city, 30 miles one-way, forced my dad to move us out of Duval county....Dad continued to run the M&B Wesconnett garage behind the Hess station 103d, Wesconnett/Timuquana until they tore it down in '84. Graduated from Clay High '76, St Johns River Community College '78, then moved home to Jax & finish my BBA at the University of North Florida '81. UF ROTC '81, Entered US Army Corps of Engineers as a 2d Lieutenant, August '81. Married Stephanie Aug '81, divorced Stephanie & the Corps of Engineers '84, went to Flight School, became Helicopter Maintenance Test Pilot with first tour in Korea...then stationed at Hunter AAF, Savannah, GA... Met and married Gina '89-90, but the aftermath of the Iraq/Kuwaiti war got in the way and my stupidity, depression and alcoholism upon my return from combat ruined that marriage and lost for me the love of my life... After the Desert Storm road trip, and after 9 months of washing my undies/laundry in an igloo cooler, I received my air medal war hero junk...resigned my commission in active army, joined reserves during the major force reduction in '92. Clinton came in and I left...Promoted to Major... Went to Europe as a defense contractor with Lockheed Martin. Tragically, I lost Gina, bu...Expand for more