Wes McCommis:  

After leaving Cleveland HS I headed on down to Rolla to get my BSEE - I roomed with Greg Bischoff during my freshman year. I stretched out my stay at Rolla to five years, hoping to outlast the Vietnam War fiasco, as I had lucky draft number 30 - no cigar. I ended up signing up with the Air Force, as I'm more of a lover than a fighter. I spent a couple of years at the Cheyenne Mountain Complex in Colorado Springs; then a year or so in Wiesbaden AFB in Germany; and finally about six months at Castle AFB in California. After the AF gig I signed on with Pfizer Medical Systems and maintained CT xray scanners for a couple of years in Pensacola, Florida and Mobile, Alabama. Then I came back to Mizzou in Columbia to work on a degree in Computer Science. Went to work for McDonnell-Douglas for nearly ten years before getting caught up in the massive (7000 people) layoff of 1991 when the DoD decided to cancel the Navy A12 program. Spent about five years at the Defense Mapping Agency, and when that dried up came back to McDonnell-Douglas in 1996 as a co...Expand for more