SPC Daniel Thomas Smithson, B.Sc., M.A., M.A.

SPC Daniel Thomas Smithson, B.Sc., M.A., M.A.

Dates of Service: no date specified
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4/80-1/81 USMCR, New Orleans; 1/81-5/81 USAROTC, UNO; 5/81-4/88 USMCR; 6/81-6/87 Comptrollers, Texaco; 8/88-1/89 LRNG; 1/83-12/88 B.S.Tulane; 1/89-5/89 KRNG; 5/89-7/91 USA, El Paso, Tx; 9/91-6/93 M.A. WKU; 1/94-5/94 adjunct instructor JCTC-SW, Louisville; 6/95-6/02 M.A. UofL; 1/01-11/10 JCPS; AT'11, PCT'14, CDT'15; 9/13-10/16 53er: 52 Peak Club, Hiking Las Vegas. Born: Marrero, La. Parents: Intelligence agents operating strip clubs, Bourbon Street, New Orleans French Quarter. Father: WWII Brevet Brigadier General, OSS. Mother: daughter of General Short, Commandant Pacific Division US Army, Battle of Pearl Harbor. H.S. graduate Orleans Parish Public Schools 6/79. 100% disabled veteran (bullshit political lie). Long distance, Triple Crown hiker. Fathered 5 kids. Married 22 years.

Military Experiences

Aug 1989 - Jul 1991
Computer Programmer-Analyst
Receive data transmission spools of magnetic tapes and re-record them onto back up files on separate spools of tape, report to perform detail services for different units in the Support Squadron, analyze the operation and primary immediate action maintenance required of field generators and compose and write an operations manual for deployments to support the Regimental Data Center in remote back country. Was sent to interview with M.D.s at the Emergency Room at Wm. Beaumont Army Med. Ctr. and a few months later was Honorably Discharged on Disability Retirement and still stuck in that rut.
May 1989 - Jul 1989
Recruit
Physical fitness training, infantry skills, marksmanship, how to wear the uniform, how to treat and protect against dehydration and heat injuries.
Jan 1989 - May 1989
Fire Support Team Specialist
Went to Fort Knox in the field in a Vietnam era aluminum personnel carrier, took an order to sketch the battle field as I saw it from the Observation Point and did the best I could that brought compliments from all the officers, and afterward helped wash mud off the personnel carrier, and on another occasion went to Fort Knox into a classroom with a large video screen of a large tract of land, maybe several small farms and a map and map reading tool to plot target coordinates and watched others report their coordinates and adjust fire, but when I had my turn there was no requirement to adjust because I would have destroyed the target with one round.
Aug 1988 - Dec 1988
Fire Support Team Specialist
Re-qualified with the M-16, became acquainted with field radios and data transmission equipment, went to Fort Polk into a classroom with a large video screen of a large tract of land, maybe several small farms and a map and map reading tool to plot target coordinates and watched others report their coordinates and adjust fire, but when I had my turn there was no requirement to adjust because I would have destroyed the target with one round.

Deployments

Not Applicable
not applicable

Military Credentials

Professional Development Schools

Jan 1980 - May 1980

Advanced placement ROTC Leadership, University of New Orleans

0

Not Applicable

Individual & Special Skill Schools

Mar 1989

Artillery Forward Observer

Nov 1988

Artillery Forward Observer

Sep 1980 - Oct 1980

Marine Corps Air-Ground Communication School

Certifications

0

Not Applicable

Foreign Language Skills

0

Not Applicable

Security Clearance
Secret

Academic Degrees

Academic Degrees

1995 - 2002

1991 - 1993

1983 - 1988

University College, Tulane University

Bachelor of Science, Computer Information Systems

Personal Information

Interests
residential construction
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