I was, and still am, just a dumb kid from Bayside, Queens tbh. I turned 15 the day before 9/11 and went to juvi about a month later and did a 2-year stretch there. I signed up for the Marines when I got out at 17 to go to Afghanistan in 2003 (lol). I ended up doing x3 tours in Iraq as a combat engineer across the years 2005-2008 instead, assigned to various infantry units to do explosives work and IED hunting for them in the Sunni Triangle. I got out and went back to NY in '08 just in time for the financial crisis to hit. I used the GI Bill at SUNY Maritime while working a security gig at 60 Wall St (where DJT's tax returns were no less) for four years, where I studied environmental science and did ROTC while also seeing the TARP bailout protests and Occupy Wall Street up close at the weekend security gig. I commissioned as a Naval officer and did oceanographic intelligence work for the Navy with respect to anti-submarine warfare from about 2014-2018, earning my MS during that time in geospatial information systems and analysis from Penn State's online program. Did a deployment to South America during that time and saw a lot of how fleet operations work. Got out in 2018 and took up work in Colorado as a cartographer, where I also learned how to cultivate cannabis at scale through an internship gig I had on the side. Nowadays I map water for the federal gov and do precision shooting and competitive pistol on the side. I also teach people how to grow cannabis on their own and have been working on a book to help future veterans for about a year now. That's my life/career and talent-set in a nutshell. I've lived in NYC, Charleston, SoCal, Mississippi, N Carolina, and now Denver. I ended up liking the mountains on the weekends.