Currently the Operations and Technology Supervisor for Great Lakes Transportation (dba Metro Cars) supporting multiple sites on a MPLS and VPN networks, including 200+ mobile data terminals. Duties include 24hr Help Desk support, New Systems Deployment, Data Security, LAN support, Exchange administration, Database Administration, and just about everything else they can think of. We operate on a Client/Server base in a Virtual Machine environment.
Additionally I am a Vehicle Operator and Therapuetic Recreational Leader with the City of Westland, Michigan...Parks and Recreation Department. I oversee recreation type activities for children and adults with a wide and various range of disabilities.
Active in a few military groups... Marine Corps League (Det 152, Jr. Vice), Military Order of the Devil Dogs (Pound 6), American Legion (Post 364, Sgt-at-Arms), Sons of the American Legion (Squadron 364, Adjuant), Dearborn Allied War Veterans Council (Adjuant), VFW, AMVETS, just to name a few.... They keep me very busy.
Of course, TWS get's a lot of my attention as well...active on various teams and projects here to make TWS a better place for all of our service men, women, and veterans !!
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United States Marine Corps
244th Birthday
November 10, 2019
Description Exercise Ocean Venture 86 was a joint military exercise sponsored by the Joint Chiefs of Staff and held in the Caribbean in 1986. The exercise involved the participation of 20,000 US military personnel with the aim of providing a military presence in the region, improving infrastructure, and providing training to various military units, including the SSU of the Grenadian police force. The exercise was one of the largest such exercises in the region since World War II.
ROOSEVELT ROADS NAVAL STATION, Puerto Rico -- Hundreds of U.S. and Caribbean troops assembled for simultaneous mock invasions today of Puerto Rico and Grenada -- the island nation a U.S.-led force stormed three years ago.
The joint maneuvers, nicknamed Ocean Venture '86, are aimed at presenting a show of force in the region and at improving communications between the various armed forces, spokesmen say.
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The October 1983 invasion of Grenada was reportedly marredby numerous coordination foulups. Nineteen American troops died and 90 were wounded during the U.S.-led action to oust radicals who had overthrown leftist Prime Minister Maurice Bishop.
In today's assaults, some 1,500 troops from the 22nd Marine Amphibious Unit and the 101st Army Airborne Division will storm the island of Vieques just south of Puerto Rico as 750 other troops invade Grenada by air.
The invasion force will shell the Vieques beach before going ashore, then will battle towards Camp Garcia airfield. According to a scenario for the maneuvers, a band of rebels will defend the airfield.
The Ocean Venture maneuvers, which began April 28 and end next Sunday, involve 10,000 U.S. and Caribbean troops from Jamaica and members of the Regional Security System.
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The RSS of eight eastern Caribbean countries was formed in 1982 amid fears over the close ties between Grenada's government at that time and Cuba and the Soviet Union. U.S. officials have estimated the RSS has cost the United States $20 million and $30 million in training and equipment.
The Marines steamed toward the southern corner of Vieques in a five-ship flotilla led by the helicopter assault ship USS Iwo Jima. The Army troops were arriving aboard C-130 transport planes.