Ronald Glass:  

Life After graduation: Early in February 1967, some will recall I was off to the Army for the next 23 years. Nam 1967-68; second tour 1970-71 as helicopter pilot with Air Cav; lots of night school with University of Maryland and Florida State University, then a year full time, culminating in graduating (somehow -- summa cum laude) from Troy State University in 1979. Overseas tours with the Army included Panama, Germany, military attache in Honduras (1982-85). Then, a year as a student at the Command & General Staff Course taught in spanish at the U.S. Army School of the Americas (no my liberal friends -- and I love your good hearts dearly -- no torture was taught). Actually we tried to share with Latin American officers how to "spell" and practice democracy, rule of law and respect for human rights. Some just didn't listen very well. Afterwards, the Army sent me to "spy on the US Navy"...I attended the Naval Post Graduate School in Monterrey, California in 1987 (M.A. National Security Affairs, Western Hemisphere). In 1989, as a Major, I was appointed officer in charge of a national program focused on Latin America. In 1990 I was offered and accepted a job with an aerospace sales firm and left the Army after 23 years service. In 1992, I returned to government service, this time joining the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) as a civilian "democratic governance development officer and programs manager". I subsequently served with USAID in Honduras (1992-96), Dominican Republic (1996-2002), Kathmandu, Nepal (2002-2004), Bogota, Colombia (2005-2007), Afghanistan (2007-2009), Russia (2010-2012). In September of 2009 I began a full-time Russian language course at the State Department's National Foreign Area Training Center in Arlington, Virgina. In the summer of 2010, I was posted to USAID in Moscow, Russia where I was Director of the USAID Democratic Initiat...Expand for more