David Clark:  

Greetings all! I have been living in Thailand for over ten years. I retired after 27 years 11 months in the USAF for 27 years and then worked from my home near Austin, Texas for a Dallas company for 19 years. In the USAF I lived in many U.S. states plus Puerto Rico (twice), Guam, Thailand and England. I retired with the highest enlisted rank of Chief Master Sergeant. With my second career I travelled extensively to Egypt, Jordan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Puerto Rico, and more that are not coming to mind at the moment and also to many states in the USA. Holidays have included Peru, China, Malaysia, Indonesia, Bonaire, the Bahamas, Mexico, Amsterdam Belize, Mexico Egypt and so many more places. It's been great. In the USAF I first worked in the Atlas missile program in Abilene , TX. Then I worked for the rest of my career in calibration laboratories repairing and calibrating the various measuring instruments used to maintain the various equipment used by the Air Force, Navy and other government agencies in their operations. My USAF experience fit perfectly for my second career. Starting in Austin, TX I worked building gas analyzers that ended up in Air Pollution Monitoring systems that I eventually travelled around the USA and the world installing them at power plants, refineries and even paper and wood pulp proce...Expand for more