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uh it's uh obviously

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exploring

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uh new and distant places and uh but

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at first i mean that's that's you know

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when you're younger that's what i wanted

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to do i saw neil armstrong walk on the

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moon

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and i looked at my mom and said hey i

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want to do that i had to create my own

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opportunities and so when i got my first

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job when i was nine years old and then i

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was working pretty much full time by the

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time i was 14 and if i wanted a bicycle

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i had to go find the parts put it

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together and make it work right so i did

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that not only was it a good bicycle but

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it was the best bicycle in the

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neighborhood it could ride wheelies and

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it could go over jumps and ride through

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the woods i could do it and i did

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everything on on that i graduated high

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school from blue hills regional

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vocational technical high school just

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south of boston massachusetts a really

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good experience here working with a lot

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of machines and technical design and

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things like that

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got a lot of after-school jobs doing

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technical things so it was a really good

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experience

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moved on into engineering at

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southeastern massachusetts university

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now called university of massachusetts

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they changed over

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in mechanical engineering again another

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great opportunity had some great mentors

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there folks that i still keep in touch

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with to this day professors

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you know deans all those folks

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presidents

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all those folks that run the school just

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just a great facility and great people

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then moved on to purdue university again

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in mechanical engineering with a

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specialty in fluid mechanics and

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propulsion

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i cleaned

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a bakery at night you know between

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midnight and six in the morning when i

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was just getting into high school and

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then then graduated that opportunity up

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into actually making bagels and bread

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and things like that and all of that

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funded my first year or two of college

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and without which i would not have gone

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and so as a young age i realized that if

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i wanted to get somewhere if i wanted to

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get to be an astronaut i was going to

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have to start working early and hard to

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make it happen in college we had a very

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tight

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that we started pulling people in from

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other disciplines you know computer

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science um you know business and things

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like that the camaraderie was absolutely

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incredible and the support that we gave

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each other was absolutely uh incredible

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i did a little bit of kung fu for about

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three years uh there because it was

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active and it was physical and it was

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something different that i wanted to try

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i was in a rock band played lead guitar

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all the way through college we had you

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know several gigs in and out of boston

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providence you know up and down the east

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coast there a little bit and that was uh

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that was actually a pretty good team

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activity too i actually enlisted when i

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was 18 years old and i spent my summers

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going to training in chicago and you

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know japan and some other places where

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wherever my unit deployed

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and then i did one to two weekends a

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month yeah every every navy squadron and

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air force gardener they have

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names

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you know they have 14 squadrons jolly

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roger the top hatters those are all f-18

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squadrons now by the way because f-14

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went away

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but the at vx9

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they called themselves the vampires

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just because that's just what they were

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we did a lot of

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testing of systems

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and vehicles

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at night

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for missions that no one would see i

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want to see what's over the horizon i

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want to see

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new places i want to meet new people i

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want to create new technology i want to