22 year retired veteran.

17 years DoD service, one tour in Bosnia,one tour in Iraq, three tours in AF, four tours GTMO, etc., etc.

Three daughters, two sons, 37th anniversary, married a farm girl from ND who got expert her first range in the Army.

Currently getting Master of Divinity degree to return to a small Baptist Church in the slums of Freetown, Sierra Leone and serve as Pastor.

My children are not a “punishment” but the reason I get up and do my thing every day. I will never see my girls wrapped in a Burqa or my boys wrapped in a “vest” while air is still whistling through my lungs.