I’m a retired U.S. Air Force officer. I flew the F-15 Eagle in Arizona, Virginia, the Netherlands, Alaska, and Japan. At other times in my military career I was a training command instructor pilot, a joint staff officer with US Special Operations Command, an aircraft accident investigator, and chief of flight safety for Pacific Air Forces. After leaving the USAF in 1997 I worked for eight years as a defense contractor, training USAF fighter aircrews in the USA and Asia.

The life of a fighter pilot is a hard-drinking one; the life of the typical Hash House Harrier even more so. I was no exception, but in in March 2007 I sobered up and became that rarest of rarities, a non-drinking hasher. So far, so good ... I kept hashing for several years, gradually became a sober basher, but am now fully retired (which is to say, no longer actively hashing).