Allen Lunn:  

Updated 20 February 2022… If you’re reading my update, I hope everything’s going well for you and your family (if applicable). Even though I didn’t graduate with Orange Park High School, I still remember that class more than I do the class I did graduate with at Cox High School (in Virginia Beach) – I moved to VA right before my senior year at OPHS – that sucked. I’d been in Orange Park since the 7th grade and then I moved right before my senior year. After I graduated from Cox High School (in 1990) in VA, I joined the Marine Corps. I did my minimum four years and got out as a corporal/E-4. Fast forward four years… In 1998, I attended Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN. I didn’t feel I was working toward anything special so I went back to the Marine Corps recruiters asking to reenlist – that didn’t happen due to the Marine Corps’ strict policy on visible tattoos (total BS). After multiple attempts with the Marine recruiter in that recruiting office, I decided to visit the Navy recruiters down the hall – and joined the Navy in June 1999. The Navy accepted me, but as an E-3 – I took a pay cut. I ended up ...Expand for more