"Glac bog an saol agus glacfaidh an saol bog tú"
Take the world nice and easy, and the world will take you the same.
I grew up in a little village called Moyne in County Wicklow, Ireland. Moyne is about 50 miles south east of the capital Dublin. My first elementary school had just one teacher and I had only one other student in my grade. I graduated from Sligo Grammar School and attended a university in Belfast. I transferred to Dublin due to the political instability (and the fact that I did not care for Belfast.) Dublin is where I had the most memorable of years this may account for why I dropped out after only only one year. I moved to London and began working on the construction sites operating heavy earth moving equipment. This was a great experience but it was a tough life. After bouncing around London and a short stint in Geneva, I moved back to Dublin and took up employment in the construction field again. Shortly there after I got an offer from an American company to drive "Over the Road" trucks across the entire country. I had always wanted to see the united States and this seemed like a wonderful opportunity. After arriving with one bag and about $1000 it was not long until I trekking the length and breath of the North American continent. In approximately one year I visited 45 of the 48 continental states, Canada and Mexico. However, truck driving was a very tough and for me an extremely lonely job. Plus I had never lost the desire to finish college. When I investigated getting back into university it turned out to be a rather expensive pursuit.
This was when I heard a commercial on the radio about how you could join the military and they would pay for college. I went in (rather naively ) and told then that I wanted to fly helicopters. They instead told me they could get me a job jumping out of them! I signed up. Before long I became an Airborne Ranger. My first unit was Bravo Company 3rd Battalion of the 75th Ranger Regiment. Perhaps it was destiny that my first teaching job is here at Rincon, where I am once again a "Ranger." I had many various and assorted experiences with the Ranger units and made some life long friendships. My last assignment was with the Ranger Training Brigade. This unit ran the Army Ranger School. It was here working as an instructor and squad leader that I suffered an injury which forced me out of the military.
As a result of the injury the military offered to retrain me. They asked me what new career path I wanted to follow. The responsibilities of a Ranger Instructor include training, teaching and mentoring, thus becoming a high school teacher seemed like a logical decision. I thoroughly look forward to my time as a Rincon Ranger.
