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Subject living in Israel
Date Fri May 11 20:30
Author Matt Yocum (myocum@netvision.net.il)
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Hey gang. Don't know if any of you will find this or not, but I thought I'd put something here, and if any of you wander in here as I did, you'll find something waiting. I'm still in, on an engineering exchange program to Israel. I'm working at a university called the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology) in the northern coastal city of Haifa where I'm doing a research project on UAVs for the IDF (Israeli Defense Force). Before this I spent 7 months in Monterey, CA at the Defense Language Institute learning Hebrew. Been moving a lot. Was at AFIT right after we graduated, then went to Arnold in TN working on engine testing, with a lot of TDYs to Edwards. Got out of there after a year and a half and did some hush-hush stuff at Kirtland for a year. Then went back to the zoo, to the mech dept, to teach for 2 years. Talk about a weird feeling, sitting across from where we once sat (although they finally replaced the desks and seats throughout Fairchild). Then I got selected for the exchange, headed to Monterey for 7 months, and came to Israel in Aug 2000, 2 weeks before the intifada started. I'm attached to the embassy in Tel Aviv since there's no base here, and I have an APO box and some other privileges through them. It's been an interesting time in the last year, living here. There's not really anything in my experience that's compared with it. Not sure what I'm up to in the future. The mech dept might sponsor me to get a PhD (which would require I stay here another year past the two I'm scheduled for) to go back and teach. I'm also plugging away at my future hope, to be a writer. I've got one non-fiction book done (not published though), and my one major publishing credit (okay, here it comes), the engr mech textbook for core. Yep, when the dept head, Col Fisher, heard I love to write, he tagged me to re-write the text, so I scrapped most of the existing one and re-wrote it from scratch. Hey, I don't make a dime off it, but I can officially say I've been published, and by Forbes Publishing no less. And there's usually a Catch-22 to the publishing world - to get published you have to be published. So that helps my future chances. Now I'm working on a sci-fi novel that's about 2/3 done. We'll see if any publishers go for it. Well, enough. Like I said, I don't know which, or if any, of you will wander in here, but I hope someone does. If anybody does end up in here, send me something and let me know what you're up to. By the way, I was there when they "decommissioned" the squad. Very strange. We're now a part of history. Later all. Matt |
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