Robert Young:  

After graduating high school I enrolled at the New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell, New Mexico. Before I started there in the fall of 1980, I was sent to Fort Knox, Kentucky for Army R.O.T.C. basic training for 8 grueling weeks of torturous Army training in the severe humidity of Kentucky during the hottest summer I think I've ever lived through! The following summer I was sent to Fort Riley, Kansas for my R.O.T.C. advanced training for another hot, sweaty and physical 8 weeks of intensive Army training. It was much more interesting than the previous year's training plus I got to ride in a dual rotor transport helicopter -- a CH-47 Chinook. It was an awesomely shaky and loud but intense experience! After graduation from N.M.M.I. and receiving a commission as an officer in the Army Reserves in 1982, I married a girl who lived in Roswell and we ended up moving to Albuquerque, New Mexico to live where I would stay for the next 20 years, raising a family and working jobs in different fields from restaurants, to retail sales to computer tech support, classroom training and instructional design. Although I did try to go back to college to get a degree, I never quite got there. Things like raising kids and other obligations always seemed to interfere with those plans. Another thing that didn't help me was not quite know...Expand for more