Vincent Booth:  

Hello, I'd love to hear from any of my old classmates and I see that some of you have visited my profile and signed the guestbook but I don't like the way that this site trys to pressure you into a subscription by waving the bait of unknown visitors. Of course, I'll take advantage of the site to see what's going on with you. Anyway, if you are wondering what I'm up to these days... I now live in/near Fort Worth, Texas with the LOML and four (So far) children. I work for a pharmaceutical formulation company developing analytical tests for FDA filings and OTC drugs. I'd rather be developing new reactions for making drug-like small molecules, but this is what I have for now. Good company, good management and Great ownership. After high school I let a full ride schoolarship to UofA slip by me, like the young fool that I was, and worked my tail off for about 3 years at everything from construction to dishwashing. In 1988 I joined the United States Marine Corps. Best thing I had ever done. At that point anyway. The Marines really shaped me up and squared me away. Cliché I know, but the Marines made a man of me. I served four years and loved every bit of it. OK, so I didn't love every bit of it at the time, but looking back, it was the best time of my life. I had a job and a purpose, an honorable purpose. I am proud to have served with 1st LAI, Light Armoured Infantry (Now LAR for light armoured recon), and did 7 mo, 14 days, 12 hrs, 37 min (sic) in Saudi Arabia/ Kuwait during the first gulf war. We were a top notch unit and absolutly the most mobile in the entire desert. Our LAV's were the fastest, most reliable vehicle the was. We could do over 80 mph over any terrian and out run just about anything. Our mobility and firepower, my LAV was equiped with a TOW anti-tank missile system, put us right up on the front line. THe only unit ever out in front of us was force recon. And sometime...Expand for more