Randy Jones:  

After MHS, I went to West Point, and graduated in 1972 with a BS in Engineering and concentration in Chemistry/Economics. I went to Ft. Benning, Georgia for Infantry Officer Basic Course, Airborne, and Ranger School. My first assignment was with the 25th Infantry Division, at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, from 1973 to 1976. While there I was a rifle platoon leader, 81 mm mortar platoon leader, 4.2" mortar platoon leader, rifle company executive officer, and combat support company executive officer. I helped deploy a rifle company to the Australian Land Warfare Center, where we participated in advance jungle fighting and patrolling with the Aussies. I also drank a lot of beer and had some unique encounters with various species of wildlife, reptilian and human. At the end of Vietnam, I was the Operations Officer for a 50,000 person refugee camp in Guam, that repatriated refugees to the US, Canada, and other western democracies. During this period I made 1st Lieutenant, and then Captain. In 1976, I took my terminal assignment at Fort Hood, Texas. I was assigned to the General Staff as the Asst. G-1 (Personnel) for the 2nd Armored Division. Texas was great, and is a relatively great place to live. I resigned my regular Army commission in 1977, took a reserve commission, and went directly to graduate school at UCSD. I received an MS in bioengineering there in in 1978. My first job was with Ingersoll-Rand Company in San Francisco, where I worked until 1983 as an engineer and Sales Engineer. In 1983, I moved to Bingham-Sulzer Pump ...Expand for more