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
5th Deployable Force Automated Service Center (DFASC), 2nd FSSG Details
The Deployable Force Automated Service Centers were formed to take the technology of the Marine Corps Regional Automated Service Centers out into the field and process data in the forward areas, improving the data process of the MAGTF's
The three main RASC's (Camp Pendleton (1st), Camp Lejeune (2nd), and Camp Kinser (3rd)) formed the deployable counterparts (4th, 5th and 6th). The 5th DFASC was placed at Camp Geiger to support those infantry units when the time came to deploy.
The DFASC consisted of an IBM Mainframe Computer, Disc Drives, Tape Machines, Printers, and Terminals, much the same as a RASC, but in a mobile platform of 2 semi-truck trailers. The trailers would deploy, and then setup and conduct SASSY and other ADP functions in the field.
The 5th DFASC was the first of the 3 DFASC's to become operational, and its first deployment was to HQMC in the parking lot of Henderson Hall to show the CG Element how a Data Processing Center could be deployed anywhere in the world.
The 5th DFASC was functional, and proudly claimed many firsts in the Marine Corps history. First to Deploy, First to conduct Shipboard Operations (aboard the Fairfax County LST-1193), First to be deployed by Aircraft (transported to 29 Palms by air). The unit was a small but determined group of Marines, numbering only about 30 from Pvt to Maj.and proved many times that they were "Good To Go" (the unit's motto).
Best Friends All the Marines in this tight, close knit unit.
Best Moment Four stand out: 1st - Delivery day when the system arrived. 2nd - First deployment off the LST. 3rd - Ribbon Cutting w BGen Wineglass 4th - Deployment out to 29 Palms.
Worst Moment Leaving the unit.
Other Memories We all did many things... I worked hard... and filled various billiets
We had to make everything work... From my duties in the Systems Dept, to setup and stringing wire, to generator operations... you did what you had to do.