SkipEd
SkipEd IS EXPLORING NEW WAYS TO GROW HIS HOME BUSINESS ON-LINE. ANY IDEAS?
updated over 2 years ago
Male - Eons member since Feb 25, 2009
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About
- Hometown
- Schenectady NY
- Places I've been
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Phoenix AZ, Seattle WA, Port Angeles WA, Washington DC, Yorktown VA, Corpus Christi TX, St Louis MO, Philadelphia PA, Los Angeles CA, Dallas TX
- Work
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- Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Treasury Investments - 1992 to 2004
- Military
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U.S. Coast Guard - 1960 to 1980
Rank: Lieutenant
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U.S. Coast Guard - 1960 to 1980
- More about me
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The Coast Guard was good to me. I joined as a "recruit", got to E-7, went to Officer Candidate School and did my final years as an Officer. I was stationed all over the country, and have four kids born in four states.
I made several trips on International Ice Patrol, sailed across the Arctic Circle and the International Date Line. I got to swim in the middle of the Pacific Ocean as a "ship's swimmer", eat a piece of an iceberg off the Grand Banks, go ice-breaking in Hudson's Bay, been on Shore Patrol in St John's Newfoundland; I have taken oceanographic water samples in two oceans, I've been in gale force winds in the Bering Sea, and witnessed a "seal kill" in the Pribiloff Islands. But I also got to see waters so calm and flat you could see whales blow miles away.
Most military people tell about long and / or boring service life. I never got bored. Lonely yes, but never bored.
