Hello,
My name is Gary Pergande. I'm originally from Lebanon, Missouri. I joined the Air Force in June of 1997 and just finished out twenty years. While in I had a couple different jobs. I started out as a avionics maintainer repairing navigation and targeting systems. Fourteen years in I retrained and got a cool job flying on the E-8C JSTARS that fly over the campus on an almost daily basis. I operated and maintained the communications systems in flight. That was a fun job but retirement is a much better job ;-).
My current goal is to finish my bachelor's degree in English and marry that with my twenty years of technical experience to become a technical writer. I have always loved reading and write short stories from time to time. It was a huge decision changing my degree plan from one more in line with my experience to an English degree but I feel like I'm doing what I want to do instead of what I have to do for once. (That's a good feeling after leaving the military)
I live in Byron on a mini farm. We have goats, chickens, ducks, geese, and five dogs roaming around. Two of which are Great Danes so couch space is at a premium. Some of my favorite authors are Stephen King, Brian Lumley, Kevin Hearne, and my absolute favorite is Jim Butcher. If you don't recognize all of those names I'll just tell you that I'm a huge fantasy fiction geek. I got my start on comics when I was a kid and my mom had a ready supply of King and Lumley once the Hardy Boys books didn't cut it anymore.
I'll wrap this up for now. Have a good weekend and I'll see you all on Tuesday!!
My name is Gary Pergande. I'm originally from Lebanon, Missouri. I joined the Air Force in June of 1997 and just finished out twenty years. While in I had a couple different jobs. I started out as a avionics maintainer repairing navigation and targeting systems. Fourteen years in I retrained and got a cool job flying on the E-8C JSTARS that fly over the campus on an almost daily basis. I operated and maintained the communications systems in flight. That was a fun job but retirement is a much better job ;-).
My current goal is to finish my bachelor's degree in English and marry that with my twenty years of technical experience to become a technical writer. I have always loved reading and write short stories from time to time. It was a huge decision changing my degree plan from one more in line with my experience to an English degree but I feel like I'm doing what I want to do instead of what I have to do for once. (That's a good feeling after leaving the military)
I live in Byron on a mini farm. We have goats, chickens, ducks, geese, and five dogs roaming around. Two of which are Great Danes so couch space is at a premium. Some of my favorite authors are Stephen King, Brian Lumley, Kevin Hearne, and my absolute favorite is Jim Butcher. If you don't recognize all of those names I'll just tell you that I'm a huge fantasy fiction geek. I got my start on comics when I was a kid and my mom had a ready supply of King and Lumley once the Hardy Boys books didn't cut it anymore.
I'll wrap this up for now. Have a good weekend and I'll see you all on Tuesday!!
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