Michael Walter:  

Life I started my career working for the City of Kansas City, Mo in the Health and Public Works Department for just over 5 years. I made many friends while working ther including Jim and Marcia Reagan and my supervisor Larry Strain later a commander in the Commissioned Corp of f the US Public Health Service. It was while working at the City of Kansas City that I met the love of my life. I think of her even today.. I left the city in temporarily in 1975 to join the Air Force Reserves, something that I had wanted to do even as a young child. In 1979 I left for US Air Force officer's training school After spending 23 years of the best imaginable years of my life in the Air Force and being stationed in places like Germany, Japan, and the Netherlands I retired in 1998. I entered private industry as a government consultant and change management consultant. I have lived in New York, Arizona, and lastly in Virginia just outside Washington DC. I have changed professions and companies and have accepted a position as a project manager in a program managed by the United States Marine Corps in Quantico, VA. It is my first sojourne into the ground radar systems. Later in 2005 because of an injury I sustained in the Air Force, I have become disabled and I am now on Social Security and listed as 100% disabled by the Veterans Administration. While in the Air Force, I traveled extensively in Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. I have also visited Ukraine, Russia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Korea, and the Philippines. Just recently I w...Expand for more