Ricardo Bacallao:  

When I graduated High School, I was going to attend the local college and study Aerospace Engineering but finances made that impossible so I joined the U.S. Air Force. I had intended to just serve a single 4-year tour and return home and pursue my education utilizing my GI Bill, but the Air Force decided they wanted me to remain in my Missile Career Field and paid me a bonus to reup for another 4 years. This scenario happened two more times and by this time I had already served over 14 years and decided to finish off my career and get my Air Force retirement. During my stint in the Air Force, I managed to obtain my Associates Degree in Electrical & Mechanical Technology from the Air Force College in 1992 the same year I retired after returning from Germany from two 3-year tours, I retired with 21 years 8 months. I decided to use my GI Bill and enrolled in SUNY Tech in Marcy New York majoring in Electrical Engineering Technology but shortly after I started college, I decided to add a few more majors, Mechanical Engineering Technology, Photonics Engineering, Mathematics and when I finally used up my Vietnam GI funds, I had managed to get three Bachelor of Science degrees one in each major except Mathematics since I just didn’t have enough funds to complete that one so I took it and Physics as minors upon graduation. My first job after school was with a company building infrared cameras where I worked myself up from an assembler after two years on the floor they offered me the job of becoming their M...Expand for more