Mark Nettles:  

This is what I deal with on a daily basis. Man, I miss just sitting in class, trying not to fall asleep in geography, or geology, whichever is the one about rocks. Those were the days. Hopefully my boss will move me to full time this year. Eight years is a long time, but having that title, Assistant Fry Cook, will be awesome. I can 't wait to rub that in the faces of all those people who said I would never amount to anything. And don't expect any free food, either. Military I joined the Army in 1994 after college to become a Russian linguist in military intelligence. I went to Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri for basic training, which was a cross between "Full Metal Jacket" and "Stripes". I then went to the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California to learn Russian. I left there to go to San Angelo, Texas, to the Air Force Intelligence School, then went to Army Intelligence School at Fort Huachuca, Arizona. My final duty station was at Fort Hood, in Killeen, Texas. It was paradise, if you like strip malls and tatoo parlors. Kind of like a larger, but run-down Pontiac, SC. I was in the 104th Military Intelligence Battalion, 4th Infantry Division, where I tested the developing intelligence gathering equipment to be used in the 21st century, (the stuff they used to find Sadam.) I left the army in 1998 at the rank of Sergeant. (This part of my bio is actually true.)