I grew up just outside Charlottesville VA. I joined the Navy after I graduated high school. I was a Nuke Machinist Mate on the USS Eisenhower stationed in Norfolk VA. I did my 6 and got out with plenty of college money. I stayed in that area and got my Meachanical Engineering degree from Old Dominion University. Graduated and worked for Stihl, thechainsaw and powertool company, as an assembly line supervisor for a year and a half. My wife who I met in school is from MD and wanted tog back up there, so we moved to Gaithersburg and have been herea little over a year. Now I am working for a company called Transnuclear as a Maintenance Planner. Transnuclear deals with the storage of spent nuclear fuel from power plants. If I had my druthers I would be working in the performance side of the automotive industry, or a race team of some kind as I have a minor in Motorsports.