Following graduation and commissioning through Dartmouth Army ROTC, I
was deferred from active duty to attend Princeton University to get my
Ph.D. in Physiological Psychology. During my time at Princeton, there
was a fire-bombing attack on the Princeton ROTC building and threats on
other campus facilities. So I elected to keep a low profile. I tried to
blend in with the student body by developing a huge head of hair and by
wearing hippy clothes and bell bottoms. After graduation I attended
Officer Basic at Fort Sam Houston as a member of the Medical Service
Corps. I was on active duty for nearly 3 years at Edgewood Arsenal,
Maryland where I did research on the behavioral effects of
pharmaceutical drugs to treat chemical warfare casualties. I was unable
to stay in the Army after reductions in my MOS (military occupational
specialty) during 1976. I moved to Northern Virginia, where I began a
career in military research and development in the field of remote sensing.