Mark Hamersly:  

Fellow members of the Last of the First, I just got on here, after being on another site for years; sorry it's taken so long to get this done. After graduation, I enlisted in the USAF, and ended up serving six years in Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand, and then the last three in W. Germany. My gretest gift, was being intruduced to Jesus at Campus Life meetings while a senior at PHHS, so that when I went to SEA< I was a Christian, which made that whole experience much easier. When my wife (Lois, of 47 years together) and I got off active duty, we came back to San Diego. I was hired by American Honda (motorcycles) while in Germany, and they made me the Service Manager of Honda of El Cajon (now Motoworld of El Cajon). After two years, I went to work at the Main Post Office for four years. After that, I worked as an Engineering Manager of a company that worked solely on classified contacts for the USAF; weapons delivery systems, radar countermeasures, etc, We worked on the F/EF-111, SR-71, C-130 and other platforms. After Desert Storm, we shrunk greatly, and I was made our corporate "hatchet man" and had to lay-off two wholly-owned subsidiary companies and 105 engineers I had hired, trained, and worked with for many years, resulting in two strokes (stress induced; small popped capiliaries in my brain. I recoved totally, and then went back into law enforcement as it had less stress (to me). I have, to date, been shot, broken my back, had two strokes, four heart attacks, five meniscal tears chasing illegals, a double by-pass and died for 4 1/2 minutes, After all that, I was still working at the Border. I finally retired from the INS/ICE/CBP when it looked like Hillary was going to win, and I had already done eight years being prevented from doing our jobs. I ...Expand for more