When I was stationed over in the Philippines we had a coup and it was very tense time because at one point they thought the President had been overthrown and everybody was locked and loaded on the base that we were at. My background is actually special warfare.

That's Special Forces--as a technician to support the SEALS and Special Boat units. My first command that I was stationed with after I got out of Electronics Technician A School was SEAL delivery vehicle team one. At that command we maintained the SEAL delivery vehicles that the SEALS used. The other special warfare command I was at was Special Boat Unit 22 in Louisiana, which is a riverine warfare unit. I was in charge of communications and repair of the radios. When I was in California, I was at Special Warfare Group 1 at a mobile communications team. The mobile communications team, I was both an operator and a technician. We at a moment's notice would be required to fly in a plane anywhere in the world and provide communications to the Special Forces. [For example,] I went to the Middle East.