After enlisting in the US Navy and spending a year at the Naval Air Technical Training Center, in Millington Tennessee, I managed to get stationed close to home at the Naval Air Station Point Mugu’s Search and Rescue Division. While there, I put a band together with three friends and three female Thai background singers.

         During my fourth year in the Navy, and a few years with the band, I got orders to a munitions ship that would be going to the first Gulf War. I found this turn of events unacceptable according to what I believed and applied for discharge as a conscientious objector.

         This episode has been one of the most difficult to write and read due to the heaviness of the material and so I tried not to edit that heaviness out.

         This story deals with internal struggles in the band and a personal relationship that developed as well as my ordeal with the United States Navy.

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