Nicholas Harmon:  

After graduating from WVHS, I attended YVC for two years, and then transferred to the UW, where I received a BA in Political Science in 1984. After graduating, I backpacked throughout Europe with a fraternity brother for a couple months. It was a fateful adventure, since I ended up meeting my future wife, a Canadian girl from Toronto named Tonya, on a ferry boat while traveling between Italy and Greece, but that's its own story. In the fall of 1986 I departed for Pensacola, FL to attend the Navy's Aviation Officer Training School (AOCS) and was commissioned an ensign in the spring of '87. I began flight instruction, but soon realized that choosing a career where I was constantly airsick might not have been the best decision, so switched my designator to intelligence and spent the next 10 years as a naval intelligence officer. In 1997, I left the Navy and worked for several different federal contractors until I joined my wife at a huma...Expand for more