Eric Hines

As a United States Air Force officer, I had tours in a North American Aerospace Defense command center and at lonely radar stations north of the Arctic Circle in Alaska and on a mountain top six air minutes from Pyongyang. Among other assignments, in Germany I was the Director of Radar Operations for the USAF's largest wing; depending on what was going on around the hemisphere, I had units solely within West Germany, or scattered from Norway to Saudi Arabia.

After I left the USAF, my wife and I ran two small businesses, and I worked a number of years in defense contracting. One of those contracting jobs was with a company that makes world-class fighter and bomber simulators, a job that the son of a friend of mine called video gaming on steroids. It was that, too.

Along the way I earned Masters Degrees in Experimental Psychology, Systems Management, and Economics. I still don't know what I want to do when I grow up.