Lawrence Meligro:
CLASS OF 1976
Cleveland High SchoolClass of 1976
Seattle, WA
Lawrence's Story
Life
Right now, I am living in Oak Harbor,Washington on Whidbey Island. I am living with my uncle and presently I am a US Department of Defence employee with the US Navy. I moved up to Oak Harbor with my mother when she had remarried for the second time.Her second husband was a retired Navy man who afflicted with multiple sclerosis. Unfortunately both of them passed away,her second in 1995 and my mother in 2004. I had arrived in Oak Harbor in 1988 with my mother and lived here since. While I was living in Oak Harbor, I learned to appreciate the natural beauty of Deception Pass,Oak Harbor Bay, NAS Whidbey of which I am now currently employed. I lived on a two and a half acrage estate which had apple and fruit orchards surrounding the large house. Every year, large populations of black tailed deer,coyote and racoons and rabbits come into our orcharded estate.
College
Right after I graduated from Cleveland High School in 1976, I matriculated at the University of Washington under the educational opprotunity program. I only went for two years because of limited opportunities so I transferred to a community college.
Military
I worked for only a while ...Expand for more
under the work study programs both at the University of Washington and other community colleges until I enlisted into the US Army. I was in the US Army for ten years from the early 1980 until after Operation Desert Storm. I done my boot camp first at Ft.Jackson,South Carolina and at Ft.Dix,New Jersey. I learned the essential infantry skills such as map reading, communications, weapons training, and basic rifle markmanship. I was an expert grenadier and a rifle marksman. I also a natural at foriegn languages. I graduated from infantry boot camp in 1985 until I began training as a combat medic at the Academy of Health Sciences at Ft.Sam Houston the following year. The Academy was tougher than infantry boot camy because the curriculum involved human anatomy,blood structure and trauma with soldiering. I was a natural at being a combat medic, field communications, and foriegn languages that I was close to making the Army's elite Special Forces (Airborne). All I needed was to go to Jump School in Ft.Benning. I remained in the Army Reserves in Seattle through Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm, until I was honorably discharged on November 5,1992.
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