Major Willis:  

Life My "bio": by Jimmy Willis My "bio", huh? Where does one begin when he writes his "bio"? Well, since this is targeted towards former students at NBHS, I guess that's as good a place as any to start. After leaving good ole' New Bern High and not wanting to take "orders" anymore, I enlisted in the US Army Security Agency ... duh? Wrong move, at least for awhile. I actually enjoyed most of my enlistment however, served in Europe and South East Asia, came home and got married, was stationed all over the US at different bases and for military exercises and held a Top Secret Security Clearance for the seven years I was in the military. The military changed when the war ended though, so we got out and moved to W. Virginia where I managed a small branch of a consummer finance company. We had a son ... Major Thomas Willis who is currently working on his masters at UC Chico in California (off and on), happy, still not married but maybe soon, and keeps me informed of his adventures (rafting down the Grand Canyon, mountain climbing, sky diving, sea kayaking, etc.); but he still doesn't know what he wants to be when he grows up. lol We left W. Virginia after a few years and moved to Northern California where I attended college and got my degree. We divorced after 12 years of marriage, my wife stayed in California and I moved to Missouri with my girlfriend (12 years my junior and the reason for my divorce of course), got married, lived in Missouri for only a year and then moved back to Northern California. She joined the Air Force and I became a maintenance supervisor for a commercial drum reconditioning plant. We had two sons ... James Robert Willis who is in the US NAVY and attending a nuclear school in SC and will be "sailing on a sub" when he graduates and who also will be getting married in two short weeks ... and Joshua Andrew Willis who just graduated from high school and will b...Expand for more