Gary Price:  

Life There is little to tell of my years since 1962. After working for a year in Connecticut, I went to Michigan State for 3 years from 1963 to 1966. I was drafted into the Army and was a medic for 2 years. I was discharged in 1968 and got married to my wife Michele. I returned to school and finished a BA in 1971 and a Master's in Public Health in 1974. I surprisingly passed the Foreign Service Officer's written and oral examinations and was hired by the U.S. State Department as a political officer (the classic diplomat) in 1975. After junior officer training I was assigned to our Embassy in Maseru, Lesotho in 1975. After a two year tour as the embassy's political, consular, and administrative officer, I was assigned to Japanese language training in 1977 then to Embassy Tokyo in 1978. At the end of two years as a consular then political officer in Tokyo, I was assigned for one year in 1980 to the Sinai Desert to monitor the 1979 Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty. I flew and drove all over the Sinai Desert visiting Egyptian and Israeli military installations, comparing their activities and personnel to the treaty limitations. I next had a Mid-Level officers' course in Washington for 6 months followed by a two-year tour as the East-Asian regional officer in the Human Rights Bureau at the State Department in DC. Then I was again assigned in 1983 to monitor the ...Expand for more