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Personal Info

First Name
Robert (Bob)
Last Name
Alvarez
My Location
Kansas
My Service
Navy
My Status
Retired
My Tags
Boot Camp San Diego Company 306 Graduated December 7, 1973, Diego Garcia PWD 1974-1975, RNMCB-17 Support Staff 1975-1976, Naval Mobile Construction Battalion FIVE(NMCB-5)1976-1978, Adak Alaska PWC Seabees 1978-1980, Amphib Base Coronado X/I Division 1980-1982, Naval Support Force Antarctica (NSFA)Seabees 1982-1985, Naval Mobile Construction Battalion FIVE(NMCB-5)1988-1991 Desert Shield/Desert Storm, Construction Battalion Unit (CBU)- 416 Alameda
About Me

Retired from CBU-416 in Alameda, California in July 1993. Moved to Leoti, Kansas where my wife was from. Opened a restaurant; Keyboard & Roses for about 6 months. Went to college at Fort Hays State University in 1995 and earned a Bachelors Degree in Technology Education. (I received an award for National Technology Student of the Year.)I taught High School shop classes; Woods, Drafting, Carpentry, Industrial Technology, & Manufacturing. I also taught an Advanced Carpentry Class for Butler College in El Dorado, Kansas. My wife and I went to Hawaii to help out our 4th daughter. Substitute taught at a Catholic Elementary School in Hawaii, as well as work at NEX. Moved to Virginia for a few months to visit our second daughter, moved back to Hays to continue work on my Masters. Substitute taught at another Catholic Elementary School and in a few days, Feb,2008, we will move back to Hawaii. Again to help my daughter, who's husband is in the Army and currently serving in Iraq. She is pregnant with her third child and due on Feb. 18th. She is now in the reserves and due to go to BU "A" School some time in May. My wife and I will be in Hawaii for the majority of the year. Bonnie & I will celebrate our 3oth anniversary in Hawaii in August. We have six children, and soon to be twelve grand children.

Words of Wisdom

"Ask for, in fact demand perfection from yourself and others, But LEARN when to accept less than that."

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