Once upon a time, I was in the Navy, but I wasn't a Freemason then. I remember a sand crab that was one, and I asked him about it... he basically blew me off. Looking back on myself then, I can't say as I blame him.
Went in October '82, served on the Hunley, in Holy Loch Scotland, as a non-designated Deck Ape. Got orders to Parachute Rigger School, then went to Whiting Field, FL, in '85. Re-enlisted in '86 and was a Plankowner in VS-35, North Island, CA. Bounced all over the Pacific with that squadron, including a stint on the Enterprise. They decommissioned the Air Wing, and I spent the next fourteen months in the paraloft on Diego Garcia. Then I went back to North Island as a SERE Instructor, and became one of the first DEST Instructors in two decades when Desert Storm started. Got out in '91.