L'il Ronnie Snodgrass:  

Most of you know I am a class clown so I thought I better update my silly profile just in case someone reads it and takes me serious. Then Dean Stevens will discipline me again. Born in Detroit Michigan in 1947. Moved to Az and did my last 2 years at Maryvale. I was not a straight A student but I could play a mean trombone. I got recruited into the Az Army National Guard, (NG) while still in H.S. They needed me for a secret special operations group. O.K., O.K. it was the 108th Army Band, aka the (Fighting 108th). I was in the NG for three years before they realized I had not been to basic training. Off to Fort Jackson I went in South Carolina. It was a coal burning base. That means black snow. I got married after basic training to a gal from Alhambra. I should have known better. I was too young and stupid. Two kids resulted from that marriage. Both still live in the valley. My son has been in the Az Air National Guard for over 26 years. He is a boom operator in their flying gas stations called KC135's. My daughter has been employed as a manager by the Public Safety Pension system for over 24 years. I was a computer programer for 4 years at KPHO TV until I went nuts and had to get some kind of job outside. In 1971 I joined the Phoenix Police Department. I went through the academy with Tom Harbour (MV 65). Tragically Tom passed shortly after retirement as a result of Parkinson's disease. He was a wonderful man and is missed. I did almost 38 years on the PD and had a blast. The academy taught us how to shoot guns, beat people up and write reports. I worked under cover 4 times. It gets old, trust me. Then I promoted in 2001 and went back to patrol at age 54. At my first squad briefing I told my kids there were 5 words they would never hear me say on the police radio. They waited intently on what I was going to say. I made them wait and then with perfect timing I pretended to pick up a microphone and cleared my call sign. 41g, "I am in foot pursuit". I told them they would do all the chasing and I would jump in if needed and help subdue the really big bad guys. I retired and in 2008 and give God all the glory that I never had to shoot anyone, take a life or get shot at (that I know of). But there was plenty of fighting, I mean subduing of bad guys. I really wanted to go to clown college after retirement but Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Clown College in Florida closed before I pulled the pin. That' s O.K. because I could not even make more than a snake and worm balloon animals. Wait for it. Don't think too hard. Snake. Balloon. Never mind. Speaking about God, the police career is certainly tuff on us Christians. You might think it would be easier but it was not fo...Expand for more