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MIKE MASTERSON
I am in the Air Force, serving at Maxwell AFB, in Montgomery,
Alabama. This area has become home for me - I was blessed by the love of an Alabama woman
- my wife of 23 years, Jane Ellen - 24 years ago (I was getting a divorce from my first
marraige and waiting to start my Air Force career at our 10 year reunion), and discovered
a part of the country I truly loved, and did not have Kansas winters, when I first visited
here. A long, winding tale (aren't they all?) of active duty service in the Air Force took
us to New Mexico, South Carolina, Germany, Florida, and back here, all by 1992. I was in
the Air Force Reserves from 1992 to 2002, a time when I taught college courses and attained
my Ph.D. in Management Information Systems from Auburn University. After 9/11 and a 9 month
mobilization as a wartime analyst, I sought and was approved for a return to the 'full-time'
active duty list, and also was promoted to LtCol. I have been on active duty in various
positions within Air University here at Maxwell since then.
My youngest daughter graduates from high school next May, and I will probably be off to the
big sand box for one year very shortly after that. I hope to return to Maxwell in a faculty
teaching position until my retirement from the Air Force in 3-4 years. Hopefully I won't be
'elsewhere' for the 40th reunion in 2010. My wife and I are very active in our church, and I
am an almost competitive age group sprint triathlete (that is the real short course version
of triathlons). I will try and stay in touch much more frequently, it is a comfort to see
and hear of my high school colleagues and associates.
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