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1951, March 29: born Mission Hospital, Asheville, North Carolina
1968, June: graduated from Community HS, Swannanoa, North Carolina; JROTC, auto shop, math club, marching band
1968, September to 1972, June: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University ("Virginia Tech"), Blacksburg, VA - BS, Mechanical Engineering; marching band (trombone), NROTC (and Navy scholarship), SCA fighter (in the Barony of Black Diamond)
1972, September to 1974, June: University of North Carolina, Charlotte -- William States Lee School of Engineering, MS, Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing
1974, June: 1974, September: attended Navy OCS, Newport, Rhode Island
1974, October: 1975, January: attended SeaBee "A" School, Gulfport, MS
1975, February - March: attended Seabee Replacement School, Gulfport, MS
1975, April - 1980, April: assigned to Seabee construction project at NSF Diego Garcia, BIOT
1980, May: ended active duty (still had a 2 year reserve obligation)
1980, June - 1982, May: employed at the Freightliner Corp. factory, Mount Holy, North Carolina. Renewed his involvement in the SCA (Canton of Aire Faucon, Kingdom of Atlantia) again, now as a siege engineer and blacksmith.
1981, May: Freightliner Corp. sold to Daimler-Benz
1982, May: Laid off during staff reduction at Mount Holy factory
1982, June - 1982, February: Eking out a living working as a truck mechanic and making SCA armor.
1982, August - 1983, February: Morrow Project background checks
1983, February: recruited into the Morrow Project, began indoctrination training
1983, April - 1984, May: assigned to construction of E-4 bunker and support facilities in the Mojave Desert
1984, June - 1985, June: part of Cohort 19 "field training" (the regular type of Project training)
1985, July: entered cryogenic sleep as part of Team E-4