Robert Lake:  

Life At the end of school I was looking at one of two choices. Working in the cotton mill or going into the military by draft or signing up. I joined the Navy with the idea of staying out of Viet Nam and getting into their electronics school. As Gomer Pile would say; Surprise! Surprise! They put me on a fifty foot gunboat patrolling in close to the beach and made a weapons expert out of me. After being shot at by everything from a .223 caliber up to eight-inch diameter shells for 366 days, wouldn’t you know it was a leap year. I went on to complete my naval career on the USS William R. Rush a Destroyer. I got to see the world, through a little round window. I don’t regret my navy years. Although I had to grow up a lot faster than I would have liked, The travel gave me an understanding of the world I would have not had otherwise. After the navy I move to Chicago and DeVry Insatiate of Technology to try the electronics thing again. While there I got it into my mind to try out for Roller Derby. This turned out to be a little more painful than I had anticipated. When you go flying over the rail up on one of the high banks it hurts when you hit the concrete, so I decide to stick with the electronics. I graduated fifth in my class so one of the job offers I had was from Link Simulation to go and work on the Apollo Fligh...Expand for more