Steve Gusse:  

Immediately after high school I enlisted in the US Navy. Spent four years as a hospital corpsman (medic) and was honorably discharged as an HM2 - Petty Officer Second Class (E5) in December, 1975. Duty stations included: Great Lakes Naval Training Center, Great Lakes, IL; Portsmouth Naval Hospital, Portsmouth, VA; US Naval Station Dispensary (part of the Guam Naval Regional Medical Center), Guam, Marianas Islands; and, First Marine Division, Fleet Marine Force, Camp Pendleton, CA, where I served as a Field Medical Service Corpsman with various USMC infantry companies (7th Marine Regiment in Camp San Mateo and 5th Marine Regiment in Camp Horno). After the service, I returned to Salem, bought a house, worked at Roanoke Electric Steel Corp. and the old White Motor Corp. in Human Resources. Married the former Vicki May from Tazewell HS (class of '70) and Radford College (BS class of '73 and MS class of '81) in October, 1977. In 1980 our first son (Alan) was born. That same year I decided to finally go back to school and utilize my GI Bill benefits to get a college degree. I enrolled at Radford University and finished my business degree requirements in December, 1983. After graduation from college, I accepted a job with Kimberly-Clark Corp. in Hendersonville, NC, where we remained until 1990. Our second son (Aaron) was born during this period of our lives. Since 1990, I've been on the corporate merry-go-round chasing the brass ring. We have lived all over the country as I've been transferred from one manufacturing plant to another while climbing the corpora...Expand for more