About Me

Well I am currently 34 yrs old. I was born in 1971. I grew up in Vt on a airstrip where my father kept his airplane. To be a kid with a airplane in your yard, was way too cool with my friends. Both my uncle and dad have a love for "round engines". At a young age I was a "hangar rat" so I spent many weekends at either at home or at the big airport 7 mi away. So while both family members were interested in old airplanes, I followed and so did my cousin. My father also had a deep interest in military history. Being that my 3rd Great-Granfather served in a Vt regiment during the Civil War, we would take his memiors and walk the fields where he once fought. So this at a young age began my interest in "Preservation" of our past. Only would I find out that Airplanes & Military Vehicles mix all too well.

As a kid riding the back roads of Vt. I remember looking for green vehicles with a faded star or the typical "army truck grille" peeking out of a barn. You would think, a kid my age then would dream about 57 Chevy's or Corvettes, "well I did both!!" Dad had a 57 when he was in the AirForce and my uncle has always had Corvettes. I would love a 71 Stingray and someday I will. But these army trucks, I could not resist either. In grade school, I did not take very well to math or any science, but history I did. Doing reports about the Civil War or WW2. I remember the day when our school library put on the shelves the complete Time Life Vietnam History Series. I had eventually checked out each one by the time I was in the 7th grade.

Me in 1988

Taking a break from work

What a job!

My 1st job, was in Aviation. I worked for a aerial advertising company in S. Fla for 6 yrs. 5 of them working on the ground crew setting up banners. My last yr with the company was in Aircraft Maint. I did this while attending my final yr in A& P school.

In 1994 I moved back to Vermont and went to work for a Commuter Air Carrier working on thirty 19 seat airliners. I was also involved in the restoration and maint of the company's three DC-3/C-47's.

My current and 3rd job I took in 1999 is working for a Regional Air Carrier maintaining 50 seat Jets.

I was interested in the Vietnam war because of a past experience when I was really young. So I started to read as much as I could all through high school. When I got to college and working for a living, my studies went on the back burner and I concentrated on my future career of Aviation Maint. But in 1995, I was single and the money was good, my father and I bought a 1951 3/4 ton M37 and started its full, frame off restoration. In 97, I finally got one of my dreams........all 13,000 lbs of it!! I would get distracted from the M37 when I bought a book called "GunTrucks" by Tim Kutta. With all the reading I had done about the war, I found that this was a "untold" story. So I was back to research again. More trucks have arrived, more distractions from the M37. Got Married, and now juggled a family. But I still manage to do it and still find time to work on the M37!


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