Hi Barbara,
Yet another Gary saying, "hi".
I knew your brother. Unfortunately, i was always trying to keep one of my goofy friends out of trouble cuz he managed to get into enough of it, otherwise I think your brother and I would have been good friends - he hung around Danny Muslewhite a lot in those days.
MUCH has gone on since then and I've done just about everything everywhere from military police and spec ops, to bail enforcement, electronic systems design, software development (GS12 for Army-turned down a 13 to teach martial arts; another real thought out move of mine), California, North Carolina, Florida, Colorado, Arkansas, Arizona, Kwajalein Atol (south pacific), Grenada, West Indies, Saudi Arabia, Poland, Greece, Singapore, Hong Kong, Philippines, England, blah, blah blah...... but, finally settled down to pursue passions: my family and the martial arts. Ended up running a martial art school here in Virginia.
I have a 14-year-old daughter. She's absolutely beautiful (biased but true anyway) and a 2nd degree black belt in mixed traditional martial arts, which I teach. My wife and I spent the first 10 years together (of 25!!!) traveling and partying, that explains the young age of my baby girl.
The economy is hurting the school badly so wife, daughter and I are looking once again overseas, maybe Saudi Arabia unless relations finally improve with Iran again... I guess I gotta get a real job again
. In that vein, if anyone out there can hook up a high end security systems designer/project manager, or .Net technologies software engineer.... we're looking to travel!!!
~ Gary Wheaton, Class of '76