Rodney Shapiro:  

LOOK FOR UPDATES AT END, BELOW I am in the Honolulu Fire Department (HFD) and serve in the Army Reserve. After high school, I went to the University of Virginia until enlisting in the Marine Corps in March of '66. I was commissioned a Second Lieutenant at Marine OCS in Dec '67 and finally achieved my ultimate goal when I went to flight school at Pensacola in '70, earning my Naval Aviator wings in '71. I was assigned to fly Cobra helicopter gunships and was stationed at New River Marine Corps Air Station in NC, showed the Cobra at airshows and fairs all over the Southeast, did a 6-month Mediterranean Cruise in ’72 and a military exercise in the Caribbean in ’73, then was transferred to Okinawa in ’74. I came to Hawaii in '75, flying Cobras and Hueys at the Kaneohe MCAS, got out in '79, and stayed because I love it here! I sold insurance for about 10 years, and joined the HFD in '88. I had joined the Hawaii Army National Guard in '84, and flew Army Cobras until they were retired in '95, then transferred to the Army Reserve, from which I am assigned to tours of active duty--I was on a tour from January to July this year (2002) at CINCPAC HQ, Camp Smith, overlooking Pearl Harbor, and was ordered to the Army Reserve Personnel Center in St Louis, MO for three weeks in September. I worked on Magnum P.I. from its first season (1980), starting as an extra, working up to bit parts, stand-in, and photo/stunt double. I worked on whatever movies/TV shows filmed here: Hart-to-Hart; TJ Hooker; Murder She Wrote; Hawaiian Heat; Tour of Duty; Raven; Godzilla; Fantasy Island; Honolulu CRU; the new Hawaii 50; Punch Drunk Lov...Expand for more