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Gary graduated from the U.S. Air Force Academy with a B.S. in International Affairs, emphasis on western Europe, and earned an M.A. in International Relations from New Mexico State University. He served 20 years as an officer, mostly as a fighter pilot. During this period he was stationed in the Philippines for over three years, and deployed three times to South Korea. Later he lived outside of Naples, Italy for 3-1/2 years while assigned at a NATO Southern Region headquarters, and traveled to Austria, Germany, Greece, Turkey, Portugal, and Spain.
He was Professor of Aerospace Studies at Central Washington University for 2 years, and during this period spent two weeks in Russia with a group invited by the Ministry of Education, training high school teachers to use a curriculum called "Christian Morality and Ethics - A Foundation for Society." Seven years later he was back at CWU as a lecturer in the Flight Technology program for a year.
After retiring from military service, Gary and his wife Stacie trained with New Tribes Mission, a church-planting ministry in remote areas, and then moved to the Philippines for 8 years where Gary served as a bush pilot. Since returning from the Philippines he has been serving as a flight instructor, helping train pilots aspiring to enter various aviation ministries.
Gary has written a lot of curriculum development material, but is new to freelance writing. He hopes his studies in international relations and years of living overseas will provide a good starting point.