John Nottestad:  

Life When I left Hickman in summer of 87 I went in the USAF. It was a good choice for me at the time, not ready for full time college and with little money to pay for it. I was stationed in Missouri, Turkey, and Louisiana, and at the end of my six year enlistment I separated and moved to San Antonio, TX. My oldest sister was in the US Army, and stationed there at the time so I moved in with her and finished the remaining credits of my Bachelors of Science in Criminal Justice, and graduated Magna Cum Laude, hard to believe! I was hired on by the Bexar County Sheriff's Dept (San Antonio) but then chose to go back in the USAF as an officer. I enrolled in AF ROTC at UT San Antonio, and started a second Bachelors Degree, this time in Sociology at the University of Incarnate Word, a Catholic University in San Antonio. While in college at UTSA I met Tammie, who was also in AFROTC. We started dating and were married less than a year later. We were commissioned as Second Lieutentants in 1996, and our first station was at Dover AFB. She is a Logistician, and I am in the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI). AFOSI is responsible for felony crime investigations and counterintelligence to the USAF. After Dover AFB we went to Germany for three years which we absolutely loved. We saw every nation in Western Europe and even got our Masters Degrees done while there in International Relations. My job there was as a counter-espionage case officer. We then moved to Andrews AFB, MD, where I was the commander of the AFOSI detachment, responsible for covering Andrews AFB and southern Maryland with felony level criminal investigatio...Expand for more