I grew up on a farm/ranch in Oklahoma, served in the U.S. Army in the early 1980'S and then moved to Arizona in 1985 to go to college and then decided to go to a tech school for land surveying and I have worked in the field of land surveying in the private sector from 1986-1990 and with a county goverment in the northern part of Arizona from 1990 to present, but I have to work in the office drafting map most of time since 2005, because of the PD related problems I have and it's effect on my abilty to work in the field (i.e. balance issues, slowness of movement and etc). I have a 22 year old son (pictured with me) and he was in the U.S. Army as a paratrooper, but now he is infantryman in the Arizona National Guard (it very nice to have him back home).