-: Yeah, so I'm a Marylander by heart, went in the service
not really sure where I was going to end up.
Thought I was going to end up being
an accounting major at Andrews Air Force Base.
Wasn't, was a intel guy who ended up in London,
but one of the first things I did when I got there
when I got to base, and fortunately, again,
goes back to I'm very fortunate.
There's a lot of folks in the service, they go in,
and I can appreciate this, they end up in jobs
where their jobs just don't allow them to go to school.
I was very fortunate to be in one location
and while I was on shift, it was a fairly constant shift,
and so within a week of landing on my first duty
station I went and I seeked out the university.
Fortunately I'm from Maryland, so if there were
two or three on base I probably didn't pay attention
to the other two, went straight to UMUC,
signed up and literally for the next seven
and a half years, whether it be in London, on Fort Meade,
or in Northern Japan, I was going to UMUC.
But just the fact that I knew it was everywhere,
and I knew that they could support the flexibility
that I needed, for me it was, again it was easy.