Gary Garcia

Well, I can't believe it has been ten years already.  Time really flew by fast.  I hope everyone is doing well and enjoying life.  As for my story over the past ten years a few months after graduation I served a 2 year mission to Santiago Chile.  It was a great experience and I was able to make a lot of new friends down there.   After 2 years I arrived home to Ririe in the fall of 2005 and began dating my future wife Cortney (Simmons).  We had actually dated a little my senior year of high school and were married in June of 2006.  Also that year I began school at BYU-I where I graduated with degree in Business/Finance.   During my last year of college I decided I wanted to join the Air Force and attend Officer Training School.  It was a competitive process to get in but I was fortunate to get great recommendation from employers and Congress Mike Simpson of Idaho whom I had worked for the previous fall, all which helped me to be selected by the Air Force.  Officer Training School is held at Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery Alabama. It is a 13 week program and upon graduation I became a Second Lieutenant  (2LT) in the United States Air Force.  After graduation Big Blue moved us to Pensacola, Florida so I could attend flight training at Naval Air Station Pensacola.  After 13 month of training and graduating with wings, we were assigned to the Air Force Special Operations Command at Hurlburt Field Florida operating the U-28.  We purchased a home in Navarre, Florida as we expect to be here for a while.  The past ten years have been great to us.  We still don't have any children but we have had some great opportunities to travel including two cross country road trips, New York, Washington DC, Las Vegas, California, New Orleans,  Atlanta, and Mexico to name a few.  It still seems weird to call the south home, but I am slowly getting used to it.  Unfortunately, training will not allow us to make it to the reunion, but I wish you all well.