Steve Hall:  

Hello to all, Well I never thought I would be joining a "Old Classmates" website. I was never one to write or even do homework when I was a much younger man. I also skipped class as often as possible to party with friends. I was considered a party animal. My life however has turned out to be a dream come true. I enlisted in the US Navy in June of 1979. I was married in February of 1980 to a high school friend turned sweetheart. Her name is Charlene "Baker" Hall. I fell in love with her at first sight. We became fishing buddies and then lovers and for the past 29 years she has been my guiding light. Charlene has made me the person I am today. We traveled around the world with the US government. I left the US Navy in 1985 and hired on with McDonnell Douglas Aircraft Company (Now Boeing Aerospace) I managed to educate my self with a college degree; Bachelor of Science, Electronic Technology (BSET). My job with Boeing was to educate enlisted military personnel with regards to maintenance and repair of fighter aircraft. I was a senior field service engineer working on the F/A-18 Hornet and the F-15E Strike Eagle. My job took my family to many new places on the East and West coast of North America. We also spent four plus years in Hawaii. I also served in the First Gulf War in 1990-91 as a civilian contractor assigned to the US Marine Corps in support of F/A-18 Hornets operating from Shakisa, Bahrain in the Persian Gulf. After numerous years of traveling Charlene and I decided to move back home to (Hope Mills) from Edwards Air Force Base in California. It was 1995 when we returned to the Cumberland County area. We both found emplo...Expand for more