Bob Wainner - Guest Member

I served for (4) years in the U.S. Navy on a U.S. Aircraft Carrier (1970 to 1974). I served as the Admin. Assistant to the Air Wing's Commanding Officer along with his staff of about 12 Officers (who were all Naval Fighter Pilots). It was so much like living in the movie TOP GUN before Top Gun was produced around 1985. My Aircraft Carrier went to the Mediterranean Sea for (3) cruises...(2) were 6 months long and (1) was 9 months long. And it takes about 5-6 days to cross the Atlantic (both ways). Those Atlantic Ocean crossing were just not fun.....I can't even imagine what it was like for explorers like Christopher Columbus crossing that ocean and how many days it took (both ways). In the Fall of 1974 (after being Honorably Discharged from The U.S. Navy).....I enrolled at Texas A&M University majoring in "Landscape Architecture"...graduated with a B.S.L.A. In Landscape Architecture in May 1977.