Steven Breaux:
CLASS OF 1983
Riverdale High SchoolClass of 1983
Jefferson, LA
V. C. Haynes Middle SchoolClass of 1980
Metairie, LA
Steven's Story
School
I got an Army ROTC scholarship to Tulane to study Chemistry  amazing, since I didnÂt do so well in Mr. FonteÂs chemistry class! Unfortunately, my personal and family life was such a mess that I didnÂt make the most of my opportunity at Tulane, and I was anxious to get married too young, so I left school to go on active duty.
After the Army, I moved to southern California where I got my BA in psychology from California State University at Long Beach
Military
LATE 1980s  THE ARMY YEARS
In the summer of 1985 I went to Ft. Jackson, South Carolina for basic training  at 5Â10Â, 117 lbs, I was a single pound over the minimum weight, but my spirit (and the drill instructors) made up the difference. Eight weeks later, I graduated at the head of my course, and had gained about twenty pounds of muscle.
I spent the next 9 months at Ft. Gordon, Georgia learning c...Expand for more
ommunications, most of which is still very hush-hush. I also made the single biggest mistake of my life  getting married. But you know what they say  Âif you canÂt say something nice about someoneÂ
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I was eventually assigned to a U.S. Army detachment to a West German Army artillery regiment. Very unusual duty, locked in a communications vault  very hush hush. LetÂs just say that the unit was disbanded about six months after the US-USSR treaty to eliminate tactical nuclear weapons was signedÂ
My doomed-from-the-start marriage fell apart in the summer of 1988, but I did get to have some fun in Europe: weekend and holiday trips to Belgium, Holland, France, Austria, Italy, and one minor diplomatic incident during which I urinated on an East German boarder post. Six months later, the Berlin Wall fell, and communism in Europe was over. Coincidence? I think notÂ
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