Dale Jones:  

After graduation, I went to work in the coal mines in Nicholas County while going to West Virginia Institute of Technology at Montgomery. After gradutaion, with a degree in mechanical engineering, I spent a year working at FMC, railcar division, in South Charleston. From there I moved into compressor station engineering and construction at Columbia Gas in Charleston. A turndown in the gas supply for Columbia left me job hunting and I moved back to the coal industry where I had such jobs as mechanical engineer, maintenance engineer and maintenance foreman. By 1980, I had enough of the ups and downs of the coal industry and took a job in Saudi Arabia with the Arabian American Oil Company aka Aramco. For fourteen years, I worked as maintenance engineer, engineering support supervisor, safety inspector and any other temporary opening that needed a little help. In 1982?, Aramco became the Saudi Arabian Oil Company and I then became an employee of the Saudi Government. Things got kind of interesting as I worked not only in oil production but also water de-salination, security and other senative areas. I was in Saudi Arabia, when Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait and afterward during Operation Desert Storm. We had SCUD missl...Expand for more