Michael Dexter:  

Life Well, life has been interesting for me to say the least. I guess the best place to start is Junior High. I attended Dora for about a year and then moved on to Northside High. I spent about a year and a half there until ultimately I had to drop out due to extenuating circumstances. I wasnt happy being a high school dropout and had just gotten married with a baby on the way so I decided I needed to do something more than factory work. So, I quickly got my GED and got accepted to Devry. Probably one of the few colleges at the time that would have accepted me. We moved to Kansas City for a year while I went to school pursuing and Electrical Engineering degree. I decide after the second term that the price was going to be too high for the degree from a less than reputable school so I decided to quit while I was ahead and find another way that would result in 30-40k in debt. So we moved back to Arkansas where I decided to pursue the military. I chose the Air Force because they seemed the most school friendly. Unfortunately they werent accepting GED's at the time so I had to jump through some hoops and sneak in through a bit of a loophole. I had to attent some dinky little school in Kansas for 2 weeks where once I was done I was given an "official high school diploima". It was a silly course but it was good enough for the Air Force at the time. Once that was done they enlisted me shortly thereafter and I made it through Basic training without a sweat and moved on to my technical training schools, first at Lackland AFB and then at Vandenberg AFB, where I was trained as a missle maintainence technician specializing in cruise missles. From there I went on to Minot AFB, in North Dakota where I spent the next 3 years of my life freezing. It wasn't all bad though. The people were great. While in Minot, I continued pursuing my degree. While I was there I completed most of the requirements for an Air Force Commisioning program known as AECP. Before I could apply I had to have at least 45 credit hours of college completed including a couple upper level science and through the Calc II sequence. I knocked all of those out while there and was able to get my associates degree in Electronics whi...Expand for more