Meet the Author
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| My name is Stan and presently live in south Florida. the Mini-Bio is undoubtedly the most difficult area to work with, like where to start. I guess the best place is to start with where it all began: Well sometime after God created the earth and havens, then came little old me I was born July 4, 1943 in a little place called "Canton, Illinois" and about the age of 6 months (super young) my parents move to Pekin, Illinois. I haven't lived in Illinois - let alone Pekin - sense the summer of 1960. However, I have always considered Pekin my home town. |
| I lived in Pekin for several years until my family decided to move out west to Phoenix, Arizona. At an extremely young age you have no concept of being able to distinguish between one of the states and any other. You just simply live here and live there. I lived in the Phoenix area for several more years until my mother (without my father) moved back to Pekin. Life hadn't changed much for me after arriving back in Pekin, it was just another place to live and have fun. I remained there with my mother, sister, and two younger brothers. I remained in Pekin through most of high school until 1959 when the family moved to another small town called Morton, Illinois (about 15 miles from Pekin). I lived in Morton for approximately a year. I didn't like Morton. I left Morton on July 18, 1960 when I joined the United States Navy. |
| A year by year list of places I've lived. Check it out, after all you may know me based on where I've lived. |
| To see the general list of all the places I've lived. It's an easy way to see a list of my duty stations in the navy, but bear in mind that my military duty stations are embedded within a complete list of "Where I lived" during my life. Check it out, after all you may know me based on where I've been stationed. |
| I joined the United States Navy on July 5, 1960 but was not officially sworn in until July 18, 1960. My next obvious place of duty was "BOOT" camp. I won't elaborate on boot-camp. If you've been there you already understand. If you've never been in the military like President Clinton, I don't have the space to explain what that’s like. After boot-camp I went to a temporary duty station for six months to wait for Radioman "A" school in Norfolk, Va. |
| My first real duty station was aboard the U.S.S. Lookout (AGR-2) home ported out of Davisville, RI. The U.S.S. Lookout (AGR-2) was a World War II converted liberty ship. It had been converted from a liberty transport style into a radar picket ship. It wasn't like some of the DDR picket ships I knew of. We had more room on that ship (thank havens) then we knew what to do with. The U.S.S. Lookout (AGR-2) was one of about seven ships that patrolled the eastern seaboard in the Atlantic. |
| While aboard the U.S.S. Lookout I became extremely ill, I SHIPPED OVER and was sent to the island of Bermuda by the was of Teletype (UGC-5) repair school located down in Norfolk, Va. After school I picked up a flight out of New Jersey over to Bermuda. I was officially attached to the United States Facility Bermuda also known as NAVFAC Bermuda, part of the Naval Oceanographic Systems Atlantic. NAVFAC Bermuda was one of several Naval Facilities along the Atlantic cost. |
| Bermuda was a GREAT place to live. I was living in Bermuda when President Kennedy was killed. I'll never forget that day. I stayed in Bermuda for three years. Ya I know, that was tough to take. |
| After Bermuda I spent a few months in the Florida Keys, between a Naval Air Station and then on to the Naval Communications Station Key West, Florida. I was only there for a couple of months and was transferred to the Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Florida. |
| The only significant thing that happened to me at NAS Jax was that I became interested in electronics. After my tour of duty at NAS JAX I was sent to Radioman "B" school in Bainbridge, MD. |
| Radioman "B" school Bainbridge, MD., NINE months of electronics training. Talk about burning the books at night. I'd venture to say that for the first four months I spent an average of about 16 hours each day between school and studying. It was worth the hardships I encountered. This period of my life is where I got my back ground training that would forge my future. From "B" school I was sent to two other schools located back down in Va. I attended KWR-37 and KW-7 Crypto Repair school. I had a good time there. Ya, a Radioman in a school usually set aside for Electronics Technicians. Needless to say, The ET's didn't like me. They didn't like for two reasons, one being that I as a Radioman and the second was because I graduated First in both of the schools. That made the ET's look bad. Sorry guys, that’s life. After leaving crypto school I was transferred to the U.S.S. Basilone (DD-824). The Basilone was fun in a strange sort of way. It was aboard the Basilone that I finally lived out the age old saying,"JOIN THE NAVY and see the world" Aboard the Basilone we made all the trips to all of the usual places. When I first reported aboard the Basilone was due to be rotated to the "WAR" in Vietnam. The rotation was changed at the last minute and our sister ship the Warrenton was sent in our palace. While on the line in Vietnam the Warrenton was hit by a shell in the radio room and several of the radioman were killed. I knew several of them. That could have been the Basilone. All during this time in the Navy I'd been trying to get into submarine school. I wanted to follow my father and become a submariner. While aboard the Basilone I received orders to attend Basic Submarine School in Groton, CT. |
The history of the Submarine Dolphin Insignia
| I moved to Groton, Ct attended Basic Submarine school and was sent to the U.S.S. Nautilus (SSN-571), and then later I attended several submarine communications repair and advanced submarine communications repair schools before being sent to the U.S.S. Trepang (SSN-674). |
| I really enjoyed my duty on submarines. I feel privileged to have served aboard the U.S.S. Nautilus (SSN-571) the worlds first nuclear powered submarine. The last submarine I pulled duty aboard was the U.S.S. Trepang (SSN-674), a nuclear fast attack. Believe it or not, I miss submarine duty. It's a tight group of individuals. |
| I advanced from Seamen Apprentice E-1 to RM1(SS) Radioman First Class E-6 Submarine Qualified. After getting stuck without any potential of being advanced any further (thanks to re-structuring) I lost interest and decided to try the outside world for a while. |
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I got out of the Navy and started to work for Carterfone Comm. and was eventually transferred
to headquarters located in Addison, Texas. I stayed with Carterfone for a total of 5 years.
I was hired away by Recognition Equipment located in Irvine, Texas and stayed with them for
a total of 10 years. During time I had thoughts of moving to Florida. So guess what I did.
I up and quit without having a job to go to and moved to Florida. View a list of where I've worked |
| When I arrived in Florida I was unemployed for 7 months prior to landing a job with Tel-Plus (a Siemens Company), and was later transferred to Siemens Stromberg-Carlson because of my skill set in data communications. I've been there ever sense. |
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I'm married to a wonderful lady named Judy. We have 6 children (2 boys and 4 girls), and 10
grand-children. One daughter living in the Denver, Co. area, One son living in the Dallas, TX. area, Two daughters living in the New Orleans, La. Area One daughter living in the South Florida. Area One son deceased Ya, I know, that’s plenty of kids to keep track of, and things get very expensive around Christmas time. My wife and I try to visit all of the kids as often as we can, which has nothing to do with as often as we would like. |
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Education: My education is for the most part in electronics. I have an equivalent of a four year
engineering degree, but without the sheep’s-skin product. Additionally, I have virtually
thousands of hours of specialized training in various disciplines. I'm talented in
areas of communications such as: standard data communication both digital and analog
RF, Packet Data switching technologies X.25/X.75 protocols, Switched Multi-Megabit Data
Services (SMDS), Frame Relay (FR), Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), and voice switching
technology. I'm also versed in machine language assembly relative to Motorola products.
I'm also familiar with: Disk Operating System (DOS), Realtime Software Exchange (RSX),
and several vender specific UNIX platforms, and obviously I have a basic
knowledge of HMTL.
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This may better be titled as "What I've done in my life for FUN". Here's the list: Stock Car Racing, (2 years), Skydiving (7 years), SCUBA diving (1985 to present), and Ride my "HARLEY" - 1994 Softail Custom Aqua Blue (1994 to present) 
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Presently I have that classified "TOP SECRET"
Later, after I've declassified that information, I'll publish the material here |
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