Steve Raulerson:  

Life Here's what I've been up to for the last 30 years or so... After graduation from AHS in '76 I went to BCC and received my AA after 11 months (CLEP tests are a Good Thing!). About 3 months after leaving BCC I entered the US Air Force as an Inertial Navigation Systems (INS) Specialist. I came home from Tech School and married the former Karen Tanner in March 1978 and moved her to Keesler AFB, MS. In the summer of 1978 we were stationed at Homestead AFB in south Florida where I worked on F-4 Phantoms. After 2 years, I went to Denver, CO, and cross-trained into the F-16 Avionics Intermediate Shop (AIS) program. We spent the next 3 1/2 years at Hill AFB, Utah, which is where our kids, Michael (now 26) and Christine (now 24) were born. We enjoyed living in Utah, where we spent a lot of time playing golf and camping in the mountains. In late 1983 we moved back to Denver where I served as a technical instructor at Lowry AFB for another 3 1/2 years. While stationed at Lowry I played on the base golf team, traveling to courses at military installations around northern Colorado and southern Wyoming each Friday (great duty if you can get it!). I also backpacked and flyfished during the summers and hunted each fall, and we just generally enjoyed spending a lot of time in the mountains. While serving in Florida, Utah and Colorado I continued my college education and completed by bachelors degree in December 1986, right as I came up for reenlistment. General Electric Aerospace made us a good offer so I opted out and left the USAF. We moved the family to Huntsville, AL, in early 1987 and I spent 3 years as the Manpower, Personnel and Training manager for the Navy's CASS program. After 3 years at GE Aerospace we elected to move back to central Florida in early 1990 so the kids could be closer to their grandparents. I took a job with Cincinnati Bell Information Systems (CBIS) in Maitland, FL, just north of Orlando. I had started working on a Masters degree while...Expand for more