Previously Held NEC 8319-P-3 System Organization Maintenance Technician
AD-8379-H-46 System Organizational Maintenance Technician
AM-0000-Aviation Structural Mechanic
8800-Maintenance Control
Service Years
1983 - 2007
Official/Unofficial US Navy Certificates
Plank Owner
Operation Iraqi Freedom
Operation Enduring Freedom
Persian Excursion
Cold War
Official Badges
Unofficial Badges
Additional Information
What are you doing now:
Retired 31 May 2007 from VPU-1 Brunswick, Maine and moved the family down to Greenville, Texas to get a bit warmer. Currently working for L3 Comm as a aircraft PDM / Modification manager.
Update 07/2015. Resigned from L-3, now sitting on my small farm watching the cows and goats drinking beer.
Update Aug 2016
Obtained A&P certificate. Working at a Cessna/Beechcraft service center in Addison, Texas called Monarch Air. Current inventory
Cessna 172, 182, 206, citations
duchess 76
Beechcraft Kingair 200, 300
Ray Ray
Other Comments:
Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) /OEF - Horn of Africa
From Month/Year
October / 2002
To Month/Year
December / 2099
Description Operation Enduring Freedom – Horn of Africa (OEF-HOA) is the name of the military operation defined by the United States for combating militant Islamism and piracy in the Horn of Africa. It is one component of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF), which includes eight African states stretching from the far northeast of the continent to the oil-rich Gulf of Guinea in the west. The other OEF mission in Africa is known as Operation Enduring Freedom – Trans Sahara (OEF-TS), which, until the creation of the new Africa Command, was run out from the United States European Command.
The Combined Joint Task Force – Horn of Africa (CJTF-HOA) is the primary (but not sole) military component assigned to accomplish the objectives of the mission. The naval component is the multinational Combined Task Force 150 (CTF-150) which operates under the direction of the United States Fifth Fleet. Both of these organizations have been historically part of United States Central Command. In February 2007, United States President George W. Bush announced the establishment of the United States Africa Command which took over all of the area of operations of CJTF-HOA in October 2008.
CJTF-HOA consists of about 2,000 service men and women from the United States military and allied countries. The official areas of responsibility comprises Sudan, Somalia, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Seychelles and Kenya. Outside this Combined Joint Operating Area, the CJTF-HOA has operations in Mauritius, Comoros, Liberia, Rwanda, Uganda and Tanzania.
