Eliot Wakefield:  

Here's the short and sweet version. My family moved from Normal, IL in Jul '79, right after my Sophmore year at NCHS, to Houston Texas. I completed my high school career at Klein Forest. It was like going from college to grade school. NCHS was so open, treated us like adults, were as Klein Forest, well you couldn't do anything. It was like going to lock down everyday. I survived it though. I put off college (grades sucked) and started working for a cable TV installer. I did that for almost a year and a half, but got bored. I was making pretty good money, but it just seemed there was something better out there. So I joined the Air Force in the fall of '82. I thought I'd stay just 4 years, but ended up making a career out of it. I just loved it. My first assignment was to MacDill AFB in Tampa, FL. Great start. I met my future wife there and are still together after almost 25 years. We had numerous assignments, including Misawa, Japan for 4 years, where both of my kids were born. Then Eglin AFB, Fl (small town - great place to raise kids - hated to leave), then Osan, South Korea (uh-this one - not so fun - wife and kids had to stay behind), Aviano AB, Italy (Awesome - a lot of work - real world mission - Bosnia and such),...Expand for more