Ruben Pena:  

Life What can I say, are you cheesy if you fill this out or just really precosios since I haven't lived that long? Anyway, here goes a lot of jibber jabber! After being a Trojan, I went to UT for one year. The first half was cool but the second seemed to be harder to adjust to. I guess I just wasn't ready to study. Needless to say, after that the school asked me to take some time off, which is like telling an ugly girl you'll call her sometime! I then proceeded to make my mark at Del Mar College.......well the only mark I made was in the restroom and it wasn't pretty. I did really well there for one year. During this time I worked at a the Pizza Hut on Ayers with my buddy Trey! While we had a blast I knew I had to do something but robbing banks seemed too extreme. I was dating a woman who I was really deep with and it ended abruptly after two years. I was also coming out of stomach surgery and my car needed vast repairs. I felt like the lowest mexican in all of Texas so I just smoked lots of weed for one week! After that, I figured out I wasn't too good at that whole pussy footing around self deprecation stuff, so I got out of my mood and started running. I never ran.....ever. I think I did it just see if I could do it, then I thought what the hell. My dad was always pushing for the Army......so I thought I might as well as give it a chance, or wait for an opening to become the beer delivery guy. Since that last option wasn't romantic enough, I decided to go through with it. I ended up in Columbia, S.C. on Christmas Eve in 1994. Confused beyond belief, I finished with a bunch of people that I thought were way too young to be there. In March 1995, I went to Augusta, GA and completed AIT by November. I went in as a satellite operator/maintainer. Basically, I drove a satellite terminal truck that goes everywhere. It was cool....but something happened. I went to Dhahran, Saudi Arabia for a six month tour. It was really hot, lonely, and a good tim...Expand for more