89-92 I was stationed at a Nuke Artillery Detachment in Italy. We didn't deploy to the first Gulf war because we had a real world mission of baby sitting a batch a 8" nuclear artillery rounds. In 92 after the fall of the USSR we closed down the detachments and all the rounds were shipped back to the US. Before that I was stationed at Ft. Lewis and after Italy I came home to the States and was stationed here in Oklahoma at Ft. SIll. That's were I was medically separated from the Army from and where my problems with PTSD started.

Building bigger airframes aren't something you start off with. It's like everything else you do in life. You have to work your way up to and you have to develop the skills for. But they are by no means secret and by no means something that is impossible to do. In my case it's just that I have been building for a long time. While I haven't been building RC planes for all that time, I've been building balsa wood planes for quite a long time. My dad started me off building Guillows planes when I was kid and I've always loved building kits since then. I've always liked taking a box of parts and putting them together and having a finished product. Whether it's wood to make an airplane or for the times that I was building scale plastic models it's still the same desire the build that has always driven me.

Ken