User:Akulkis

Contributor to these pages:

• Neuro Linguistic Programming

• Cadillac (automobile manufacturer)

• Mark O'Hare a cartoonist I met when we were at Purdue University when I was spending my evenings in local bars teaching myself how to draw portraits, and who drew the comic strip "Art Gallery" and more famously, the nationally syndicated Citizen Dog.

• Joseph McCarthy A senator in the early 1950's who was vilified by the left for (legitimately) calling for (privately) removing certain people from sensitive government positions who were working for the KGB. All but one of those people were, in fact, working for the KGB -- but the leftists in this country don't like for that to be mentioned. They would rather talk about the fact that the names were publicly disclosed -- upon the DEMAND of McCarthy's opponents

• Vasili Mitrokhin a KGB Chief Archivist who defected to the west with several cubic yards of copied documents from the KGB's Foreign Operations Directorate and Foreign Subversion Operations Directorate, and, who by the way, proved that McCarthy was not only correct, but UNDERESTIMATED the extent of KGB infiltration of the U.S. State Department ...(which was, at the time, corroborated by the Venona intercepts

I started these pages:

• George H. Goble (engineer of Unix computer systems and improved performance refrigerants), who should not be confused with the entertainer George Gobel.
• The radio host Mark Scott

I am a soldier in the US Army, my occupational specialties are in electronic communications, and I serve in an infantry company.

Currently, my federal awards and decorations are:

• Joint Meritorious Unit Award
• Army Commendation Medal with 1 oak leaf cluster
• Army Achievement Medal with 2 oak leaf clusters
• Army Reserve Components Commendation Medal
• National Defense Service Medal with 1 bronze star device
• Reserve Medal with bronze hourglass device and the Mobilization device with the "2" numeral device
• Southwest Asia Service Medal with 2 campaign stars
• Global War on Terrorism Service Medal
• Army Service Ribbon
• Army Reserve Component Overseas Training Ribbon

Foreign Award:

• Kuwait Liberation Medal (Kuwait)

State Awards:

• Indiana OCONUS ribbon
• Michiagna Outside of U.S. Service Ribbon
• Georgia Olympic Ribbon for security duty during the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia.
• Michigan Broadsword Service Medal with 3 gold star devices

My service rifle Marksmanship Device alternates between Sharpshooter and Expert. The last time I qualified on the M-16, in March, 2005, I qualified as Sharpshooter.

I will be headed to Baghdad, Iraq in the summer of 2006 for 12-18 months. For that service, I will be awarded the Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal with 1 campaign star and the Iraq Campaign Medal with one campaign star, and another campaign star for my previously awarded Southwest Asia Service Medal, and the numeral device for my Reserve Medal will be changed from 2 to 3. These are purely administrative awards and upgrades given to all personnel who serve in Iraq.