CLASS NOTES Eric Waters and his family have for Chip Satterlee, which was the been living in Albuquerque, NM for norm since everybody sees Chip the past seven months. He has just somewhere. “He is like some kind of finished training on the Air Force’s traveling garden gnome,” Tim. My CV-22 Osprey. His squadron comco-dyke, Chris Richman, graduated mander is an alumnus from VMI, sniper school in June this year and Gray Riddick ’90. The flying is he’s trying out for Special Forces in great, and they have loved living in September, trying to get that Green Albuquerque. Mark Hamilton is now Beret. He’s still working for office stationed at Cannon Air Force Base in of personnel management (full time) Clovis, NM. He is also flying the CVand living in Indianapolis. 22. Eric and the family will be moving Lastly, I wanted to apologize to Hurlburt Field, FL, in October, and for not having an entry in the last are very excited about heading down Alumni Review, I’ve been dedicatto Florida! ing pretty much all of my time up Eric Damon wrote in to tell me here in Pennsylvania to the projects that Landon Winkelvoss is currently I’m managing, and May was an deployed to Afghanistan doing intelextremely busy month. That aside, ligence for the government. Before things for me are going great. Gethe left, Eric, Mo Pipkin and Terrell ting some awesome experience up Class of 2004: Tony Peters coaching Team Washington Jackson meet up for beers to say here as I’m overseeing four major at the USA Wrestling National Championships. goodbye in Alexandria, VA. Mike manufacturing line installations and Gregory is back from his deploybalancing my duties as a controls Lessen’s bachelor party a couple weeks ago. Jon ment in Kosovo and on military leave engineer for my companies plants Rushin, Brandon Smith and Mike Coakley were until he goes back to work with Lynchburg Police all over the US and Canada. there too, and they all had a great time! Department. Gary Cutler is currently a EBOLC ’04! ’04! ’04! ... Ryan Shealy Josh Montero, his wife Kari, and their two Instructor over at Fort Leonard Wood, training boys are doing well, though unfortunately his dad Timothy Johnson engineer lieutenants. He and his wife, Erin, are passed away this past July. In January 2011, he will enjoying their new house and he’s been playing attend the Field Artillery Captains Career Course rugby in his spare time. He’ll be switching over at Ft Sill, OK. Tim Price is currently commandto student mode and starting the Captain’s Career ing Delta Company, 2-502 IN, in the 101st. They Course this upcoming January. Sean O’Donnell William Ray are deployed to southern Afghanistan and things is getting out of the AF and just moved back to are going well. He has not seen any BRs except northern Virginia. He partied in the OBX for Jon
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Class of 2004: Matt Sharpe and his wife, Alexis, hiking to the top of Half Dome at Yosemite National Park in July 2010.
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Brother Rats: By the time you read this set of notes, many of you will have traveled to Lexington for the reunion and will already be up-to-date on many of the updates listed. With that in mind, I would like to thank those of you who made it to the reunion and hope you had a great time. To those that couldn’t make it, I understand you all have various commitments that pulled you away from the reunion and we hope to see you at the next reunion, but hopefully sooner than that. Without any further delay, here are the notes: Sam Johnson and his wife, Lyndsay, welcomed their first son, Connor James, into the world on June 27, 2010. Sam reports that “Connor’s already wearing his first VMI shirt, and we’ll hold out to see if he wants to join the class of 2031.” Sam continues, “As for everyone else, I know that Andrew
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