Joined 12 years ago from Bastrop, Texas
I am a grateful person for all the friends and relatives that have touched my life and gave it direction. I can be a deep-thinker with great insight and have a lot of practical life experience. I've visited 15 countries and I love traveling to new exciting places and meeting the local people.
Growing up in Northeastern Ohio in Painesville, I was into sports and played baseball, football, and basketball. I also enjoyed motor cross from ages 8 to 18, with my first motorcycle a Yamaha cc:50 that I painfully learned to ride while finding every other tree in the surrounding area. At age 17, I joined the U.S. Navy in my senior year of high school and then went in the active military 2 months after graduation. I earned a Sea Service Ribbon and the Battle E Award while I served on my Navy Ship. I spent most of my time in the Engine Room at the bottom of the USS Butte AE-27, where I served in the Engineering Department as a Boiler Technician and Number 1 Fireman Hose Man for Engine room fires. Kind of scary job now that I look back, because I was the first Hose Man and second person to enter the Engine room when there where fires on the Boilers which normally had fires inside and by the way, MY SHIP CARRIED 12 NUCLEAR WARHEADS. My ship was decommissioned years after I was a shipmate on it and then like a movie ending, it was blown up on purpose as a bomb test 15 years after was a stationed on this ship. Try to imagine how strange it was for me to find this video "online" after I did an Internet search for my ship. Please click this link now to see my Ammunition + Fuel Supply Navy ship being Torpedoed and sunk.
http://www.myspace.com/#!/video/pete/sinking-of-ex-uss-butte/7735185
After the military I pursued a sales career, selling anything that interested me such as carports, vacuums, and automobiles. In 1995 I decided that I would attend a Technical school and went to ITT Technical Institute in Greenville, SC and graduated with Honors in Electronics. My first job out of college was as a high-tech instrumentation and software technical support specialist. In 1999, I entered into the Payment Processing Industry which I am President of A BUSINESS STORE. I hope that I will be able to stay in the payment industry for the rest of my life.
www.ABusinessStore.net
I love watching Cowboys and the Longhorns football and recently purchased my first Dallas Cowboys tickets and can't wait to go to the new stadium in Arlington!
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