Over the last three years, I have worked in three different MOS's.  The infantry wasn't working out for me, so I did my best to get out.  In 2005, I was shanghai'd into an assignment as an FA49 (Operations Research Systems Analysis).  I got a 30 day notice to PCS from Montana where I was working an AC/RC assignment and making good progress on a master's degree at Montana State.  Anyway, I was sent to White Sands Missile Range with the FA49 course at Ft Lee enroute.  As I was executing that move, I was CFD'd as an FA40 (Space Operations) which is what I had been lobbying for for the previous few years.  However, I couldn't change my assignment because I had to get a TS clearance before I could even go to the FA 40 course.  Anyway, I worked as an analyst on the Land Warrior Program for 8 months at White Sands before going to the Space Ops Course and then on to Korea.  I bought a Harley in 2001 and took 30 days off before the Space Ops Course to ride around the country.  I toured 41 states and rode 10,000 miles.  It was an incredible experience.  I highly recommend it as a great way to see the country and meet all kinds of people.  I have been in Korea for about a year as part of the 2nd Infantry Division Space Support Element.  My first boss and I were the first Space Operations Officers in 2ID, so we had to build it from the ground up.  It is still a work in progress, but it is moving along.  Paul Ritkouski works across the hall from me in the Division Plans Section.  When he arrived, it was the first time that I had seen him since graduation.  This was my first overseas assignment, so I am taking advantage of all of the travel opportunities.  I have also found an online master's degree program which I have just about finished.  Sadly, I had to abandon all the work I had done in Montana because I couldn't find anything in Mechanical Engineering online.  My current degree plan is in Space Studies.  Well, that's about the short and skinny of it.  The remainder of my adventures are really not for public consumption.

Hope all is well,
Ed