Sean Sammut:  

As a fair person, with depth that was hard to reach at times. I always wanted to be a military man when I grew up. My family and friends thought that was a good idea. As it turns out, they were right. In years past it was beer, beaches and foreign places. Now it's at home with my family or family outings and trips. Nowadays my inspiration comes from normal people, tending to their lives and responsibilities no matter the drudgery or drama. Some TV Series mostly dramas that talk about the world we live in. Dirt Track racing (Sprints and Midgets) still dominate my recreational viewing in life. My biggest surprise in life is that no matter what you have done, there is more to do. The other one is that in our world most people are only looking for two things, happiness and security. Kids, the greatest gift in the world. The biggest responsibility too. I have learned that both parents must love and nurture them, together or apart. Would love to see Mr. Davies again. He gave me confidence and was always honest with me about not just school, but life, a great role model and a good friend to so many. I would have a normal life, like so many others, working a decent job and being home with my family. So many years all over the world, normalcy looks quite attractive. My current age is 45. When I was 12, I thought that people my age now would be past it. I was so completely wrong. Careers huh? Well I started down a career path twice. Once with the Marine Corps and once as a cop. But I have too much adventurism in me to have stayed on other people's plans. So my career has been going places and doing things I am good at. LOL I wonder if contractor clothing is a style. I never went in much for style back then and still don't now. I am still my own person on that score. Wondering if camoflage is a style? The question is the weirdest job, well I have had plenty and this one may be the most odd yet. I do bomb disposal, something I have done since 1985. I do it for a Counter Narcotics program run by the Department of State but I work for a contracting company. We mentor/train and work directly with the Afghan National Police Poppy Eradication Force. So it's counter narcotics, counter terrorism, combat operations and force protection work for me, day in and day out. I think the most surprising thing to my classmates, both those that knew me well and those that didn't would be a combination of two things. The first is my marriage, that has lasted 24 years at the end of June 09 and my two awesome sons, one who is now a cop himself at age 22 and the other a pistol at age 9, along with my beautiful and very sweet wife. The other thing that would surprise them is the depth of character and insight I have gathered along the way, much more understanding of people then most would have ever though I could attain. My first job was at Dairy Queen, where I got paid minimum wage in 1979 to serve Ice Cream. What I remember most about it is that it was a new and scary experience but had some fun sides to it.. I have lived many places in my life since graduation. I have lived in California, Tennessee and Washington state while becoming a Marine who worked on electronic warfare systems (jammers). Once trained I lived in North Carolina, near the coast, at a large Marine Corp Air Station, a home to me for many years onward. I lived for 11 months on an Aircraft Carrier, the USS Saratoga and saw several countries in the Mediterranean. I then retrained and became an Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technician, bomb disposal for short. I lived in Quantico, VA after graduating EOD school in Maryland. From there I spent a year apart from my new family in Okinawa, Japan (an Island south of the main islands) and deployed to mainland Japan, South Korea and Thailand in that year. Upon return from Okinawa I regained a life in Eastern North Carolina while serving at MCAS Cherry Point. I spent several years there, completing the North Carolina Police Academy through the Community College system and began as a reserve Po...Expand for more