About: David B Robert

• Grew up in South Louisiana
  • My likes:
    1. Geaux Tigers!
       • Did my first College semester at LSU
    2. The Saints!
       • My theory is that with a name like Saints, God would never honor them with a Superbowl win until they got some real Saints on the Team. I believe Drew Brees fulfilled that requirement.
    3. All things Cajun!
       • Especially the food!
    4. Family
    5. Horses
    6. Dogs
    7. Snakes
    8. Kayaks
    9. Writing
    10. Story Telling
    11. Chess
    12. Flying Helicopters
    13. Computer Science
  • My 1st Jobs:
    1. Lifeguard at Camp Avondale age 14
    2. Farmhand at Oak Hill Farm
       • 1250 acres of Soybeans and Cattle
       • 12 acre crayfish pond
  • My Education:
    • 1st thru 8th grades: Holy Ghost Catholic School
    • 9th grade: Valley Forge Private School Hammond, LA
    • 10th thru 12th grades: Hammond High 1973 graduate.
    • Bachelor of Science in Computer Science_{2001 graduate of ASU}
• High School to Army Flight School
  • 2 years in the Republic of South Korea_{Oct 74 thru Oct 76}
    • Achievments:
      • Buffer Zone Pilot
      • Buffer Zone Check Pilot
      • Flight Lead
        • Call sign: "Tomahawk 21"
      • Army Commendation Medal
    • Note: Stayed in Korea long enough to turn 21 and make CW2
  • Fort Rucker Army Instructor Pilot
    • MOS: 100BC
      • Contact
      • Tactics
      • NOE
      • Nighthawk
      • NVG
  • Left active duty after a 6 year tour because I was curious what being a civilian was like.
• Military life to Civilian life
  • My Jobs
    1. Petroleum Helicopters Incorporated (PHI)
       • Left after a year because I wanted to fly in the mountains.
    2. Rocky Mountain Helicopters (RMH)
       • Left after two seasons because it was seasonal work and I was ready to do something else.
       • Did my 1st college semester at LSU. Learned the secret to making all A's in math
    3. ACE/DWS Instrument Contract Instructor Pilot for the Army
       • Got married while working here, and my first two children were born.
       • Left for personal reasons not related to the job.
       • This job probably contributed to my survival of IIMC x2 when I was a HEMS pilot.
    4. Boone North Carolina Sewage Treatment Plant Dry Beds Poop Scooper
       • Not something you want to make a lifetime career of.
         • Did this for a couple of weeks while visiting a couple of friends: Dwayne and Penny Langham.
       • Spent some time in the Arizona desert with Bob Sherman.
       • Went to Magnolia, AR to reconcile with my wife's parents.
         • Did my second college semester at SAU in Magnolia, AR where my wife's parents taught.
       • Went to Southeastern Louisiana to be close to family and let my wife learn some cajun cooking.
         • Did my second and third semester at SLU in Hammond, LA.
           • First semester at SLU went really well. Earned a 4.0 average and learned I really loved computer science. My third child was born in Charity Hospital in New Orleans.
           • Dwayne and Penny L. showed up during my second semester at SLU living in an old 1969 GMC school bus converted to a motor home.
             • I dropped out of my third semester (2nd at SLU), bought Dwayne's bus and moved to North Central Arkansas in the Fall of 1988 as a self taught hammock maker.
               • Found hammocks already made cheaper than my material costs. I knew I needed a different ball game. An ICS course for Surveying and Mapping was my ticket to my next job.
    5. Isabel Engineering & Surveying
       • Trainee: $3.68/hr
       • Rodman & Junior Draftsman: $6.40/hr
       • Computer Operator
         • Govt. Jobs: $9.20 an hour.
         • Company Jobs: $5.80 an hour until. . .
    6. Air Evac Lifeteam HEMS Pilot (AEL)
       • Starting pay in the Fall of 1990 was less than 20K a year.
       • Left to attempt an entrepreneurial endeavor: EREPinc.
       • also attempted to mimic Doolittle Lynn and make my wife famous.
    7. Mike Huett Surveying
       • Needed something to help pay bills while I worked on my entrepreneurial stuff.
       • Left to attend school full time and complete a computer science degree.
    8. Air Evac Lifeteam HEMS Pilot (AEL)
       • 7 on 7 off schedule afforded a lot of time to work on entrepreneurial things, plus I love flying.
       • Medically grounded in February of 2006.
    9. Air Evac Lifeteam Data Link (AEL)
       • My medical issue caused problems too difficult to overcome, so I took a medical leave of absence.
       • In November of 2006 AEL asked me to give them a date I could return to work or resign. I resigned since the other was unknown.
       • My condition has grown worse. It would have been a disaster if I had attempted heroics to continue working.
       • My closing salary with AEL was $52K a year.
    10. Disabled

". . .I have learned to be content in whatever circumstances I am. I know how to get along with humble means, and I also know how to live in prosperity; in any and every circumstance I have learned the secret of being filled and going hungry, both of having abundance and suffering need."   Philippians 4:11,12

I would have liked a double serving out of life, but the single serving I received was more than most could hope for. So, I have no complaints. It has been a good, full life. For that I am both grateful and thankful.

For, "All men are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall,. . ."
1 Peter 1:24

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