Bryan Melrose:  

Life Well since H.S. I spent a couple of years in Junior College at Connors St. in Warner, OK. I then joined the Okla. Air Nat'l Guard where I am still serving proudly and am now going on 18 years of sevice part time. I also went to school at both OSU and UCO when at the time I was originally planning on being a school teacher and a coach but decided that there just wasn't much of a financial future where I could make a comfortable living. So I worked some different odd jobs in the mean time. I worked for Sears for a few years and then at Shepler's Western Wear for a few more years as a boot salesman before I finally got hired on at Tinker AFB as a Fed. civilian employee in Sept. of 1999 and have been employed there full time since then. I finally have a decent job with decent pay and good benefits and I like it there. I work as a painter for engines in a blade repair facility building. I mostly paint engine components and engine blades for corrosion control purposes. It's a pretty simple job. I can't hardly believe how things have changed and progressed so much as far as technology in our world today from the days when I was in scool. I used to hear the stories from my folks and grandparents and other elders about how we had it so easy compared to when they were young and now I am the one telling those same stories. Technology has really made things so much simpler today and you can even make a decent living and have a career without a college education even though it does help it's just no longer necesssary. That was practically unheard of when we were kids in school. As far as my life outside of work, I never got married. I am still a single bachelor and I never had or have any kids. I bought a nice home in Moore, OK and I really love it here. It's a nice town just on the fringe of south side OKC and I'm close to just about everything including work at both of my jobs Tinker and the Guard. Everything is pretty convenient for me. While I have no kids or ...Expand for more