David Amsden:  

Life After graduation I attended PBJC for a semester and joined Alpha Phi Delta. Then I did a tour of Italy as a member of the musical group "Up With People" Cast C of which one of our cast members became a star (Glenn Close) known as Glenny to us. Later I Joined the Air Force from Nov 1968 - Aug 1972 as Crew Chief on C-130 aircraft in Taiwan 15 months, Viet-nam 2 months, Puerto Rico 2 years, and Germany 1 month. I Returned to the WPB area for 5 years, then in 1977 joined the Air Force Reserves in Kansas City, Mo. as a Flight Engineer on C-130s. In 1979 I participated in airlift operation in Nicaragua to evacuate U.S. citizens and embassy personnel during the hostilities with the Samosa government. Our operations were staged out of Howard AFB IN Panama. During that time I got to visit El Salvado, Honduras, and Guatamala. I Obtained my Commercial, multiengine, instrument pilot license, Flight Engineer - Turbopropeller, Airframe and Powerplant mechanic certificates during 1979 and 1980. In 1980 I began working for various airlines at various locations (Zantop, Fleming Int'l, Evergreen, Camair, Transcontinental, Southern Air Transport, etc) In 1983 I left the Kansas City area and moved to Clearfield, Utah where I worked for some of those airlines both on Hill AFB and later at the Salt Lake City International Airport. I use to spend weekends playing poker in Wendover, Nevada. It wa about a two an a half hour drive across the salt flats from Salt Lake City. Then I moved to El Paso, Tx to work for Transcontinental Airlines in 1988, I spent a couple of months working out of Larado, Texas. In 1989 I hired into the Federal Aviation Administration as an Aviation Safety Inspector at the Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) Flight Standards District Office at DFW Airport, Texas. I was assigned to various certificates held by the office. For 4 years 1992-1996 I was assigned to the International unit and had oversight of all Mexican Airlines that operated to the US from Mexico and Repair Stations located in Mexico that worked on U.S. Aircraft. For a short while I worked in the Geographic Unit (surveillance of all U.S. Airlines operating into DFW Airport). Then in 1998 I was assigned to duties involving oversight of Mesa Airlines, and presently have been assigned to management of the American Airlines certificate since October of 1999. I have been single (Divorced) since 1994 and have no children of my own. I do have several stepchildren and a 6 year old grandaughter and 2 year old Grandson in Arizona that I visit often. I like country music and dancing, and recently decided to learn to play the fiddle(violin) after I hand carved one from scratch. I also enjoy bass fishing and occassionally enter Bass touraments at Lake Fork. In 2005 I decided to build my own custom chopper, so I did. For the record, my wife and I remained very close friends since our divorce and finally we spent a few months together again in 2001. She had remarried a person from her home town of Marana, Arizona around 1999 or 2000 and he seemed to verbally abuse her and he drank all the time. She left him and filed for divorce and since we had been friends for so long I went and picked her u...Expand for more