Alan Cook:  

Well, I quit school on my senoir year due to a teacher that I did not get along with. He was my related subjects teacher in Marine Mechanics, Bill Westcott. I made a comment and he took me to the office and I never looked back ( that was a mistake). I worked ful time at Sharkey's Firestone in Hyannis, got married had a baby girl and went in to the US Army. Basic training at Ft Dix,NJ and AIT at Ft Knox, Ky as a tank mechanic. I had recieved orders for Vietnam but due to the fact that I had a new baby and alot of paperwork I was assigned permanant duty at Ft Knox, where I stayed for almost 2 years. Got divorced, never went back to the Cape (wish I had), moved to Maine where I stayed and worked for 4 years (Army reserves for 4 years as well at Ft Devens, Mass). Got tired of getting drty as a truck mechanic so I went back to school in Louisvile, Ky. I got a degree in electronics from U.E.I. After I graduated from U.E.I I took a job in Texas working for Petty-Ray Geophysical as a doodlebugger. I looked for oil in the Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of the Carolinas and in the Atlantic off the coast of New Foundland. That was a trip. Transfering from St. Johns New Foundland to my boat, I was taken to the biggest oil rig in the world. It was in Hybernia, an oil field off the coast of Canada. It was HUGE. It later sank in heavy seas in a hurricane.I got tired of that job traveling around the country, got remarried, had another baby girl. Went back to U.E.I. for job placement, was recruited by Motorola in south Florida. Bought a house,hafd 2 more children, boy and girl. I am now and have...Expand for more