Abe Garcia:  

I was in the band at Ray. My best friend was Dale Hope. After H.S., I attended University of Corpus Christi. After UCC converted to an upper level college, I attended Del Mar, but I did not finish. I married Kathi Lord in 1975 and we have two fine kids together, and now we have one grand daughter who is 21. Time flies. In 1977, I bought my first motorcycle, a Yamaha 650 twin. Also in 1977, I joined the Navy and was stationed at NAS Glenview, IL, near Chicago. After that, I was stationed on the USS Holland, an FBM submarine tender in Holy Loch, Scotland. Our daughter was born there in 1980.. I got out of the Navy in 1981 and began working at CCAD as a sheet metal helper WG-05 in 1982. In 1983, I was accepted into the Supply Management Intern Program at Red River Army Depot, at the Army Intern Training Center. I graduated in 1984. Also in 1984, I bought my first Honda Gold Wing motorcycle. Kathi and I enjoyed riding it all over Texas. I rode it to a couple of training classes in Illinois and Virginia. We had that bike for 26 years. I worked as a supply systems analyst at CCAD until 1988, when I received a promotion to GS-11 distribution facilities specialist. In 1992, the CCAD Supply Department was transferred to Defense Logistics Agency. I went with it. In 1993, after attending classes at Corpus Christi State University, then Texas A&M Corpus Christi, I earned my BA in Business. It only took 21 years. In 1998, I accepted a promotion to GS-12 Storage Specialist with the DLA Distribution HQ in New Cumberland PA, so we moved to PA. As a Storage Specialist at HQ, I travelled to D...Expand for more