Dan McCaskill, Jr:  

My schooling included ST Michael's, Clubbs JR HS, Pensacola HS, Pensacola Technical HS and Pensacola JR College in Pensacola, FL, Bakersfield College in Bakersfield, CA and Palomar College in San Marcos, CA, where I obtained an AA Degree. My military service included, basic training at FT Jackson, SC, Advanced Infantry Training at FT Benning, GA, Airborne Jump School at FT Bragg, NC and assignment to the 505 ABN INF, 82ND ABN, FT Bragg, NC. The 505ABN and 504ABN were subsequently detached and sent to Lee Barracks, Gonsenheim, Germany, to form an Airborne Brigade, attached to the 8th INF DIV, where I spent 29 months of my 36 month tour. After military service, I was married to Olive Guffey in Pensacola, FL. We had 3 children, Michele, Melissa and Michael. We we divorced in 1981. Subsequently, Olive passed after a long illness from cancer in 1998 in the Joan Kroc Hospice in San Diego, CA. My employment history included 5 years as a clerk at the U S Post Office, Pensacola, FL, Myrtle Grove P O and East Hill P O. Thereafter, U S Border Patrol Academy, Los Fresnos, TX, assigned to Chula Vista Station, Chula Vista, CA, as an Immigration Patrol Inspector (subsequently reclassified as Border Patrol Agent). Other duty stations included Bakersfield, CA, Temecula, CA and overseas assignment to San Juan, PR, as Criminal Investigator, INS. Returned to U S., as Special Agent-Anti-Smuggling Unit, USBP, San Diego, CA and San Diego Narcotics Task Force, San Diego, CA . After 24 years, retired in 1991. In 1981, while running in the NIKE Sponsored Masters Program, I won the Nike/Penn Mutual 15KM Masters Championship in San ...Expand for more