Russell Rollain:  

Well, if you must know, I was born July 3rd, 1960 at Saint Catherine's Hospital in Kenosha, WI. I was a dumb-ass until I left Kenosha in 1978 just 13 days after I graduated from Tremper High School. I should have tried harder, and stayed at Saint Joe's. But like I said, I was a dumb-ass. The people that I should have had as friends, (like Debbie Ogle) were instead treated by me like wierd or stupid. Oh my god, I was sooo wrong. Amazing what some age and hind-sight can do for your perception. Anyway, I went to boot camp in the Marine Corps in San Diego (I thought I was going to get some kind of vacation. HHHHAAAA!!! Then to Okinawa, Japan. I spent a year there. At that time, I was a pretty "squared-away" Marine. I went to Quantico, VA. for Marine Security Guard School. My first duty station for the next year and a half was the American Consulate General in Istanbul, Turkey. Gotta tell ya, that place RULED! I loved it there. Hell, to this day, I can still speak basic Turkish. After my "hardship" tour in Istanbul, I went to spend the next year and a half at the American Embassy in Vienna, Austria. My "non-hardship" tour. I liked Istanbul better, even to this day. When I left Vienna, I spent the next 3 years or so at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twenty-Nine Palms, CA., trying to learn more ways to eliminate enemy humans. ie; kill. I changed my Military Occupational Sp...Expand for more