I was born in Puerto Rico and grew up in New York City where I attended public schools through high school. I enlisted in the Air Force very young and was stationed in Upstate New York, Illinois, Washington DC and Spain While in Washington DC I became a Special Agent in the Office of Special Investigations. After a four-year tour in Spain, I left the Air Force but remained in Reserve. For a while I was a civilian Special Agent in the Office of Naval Intelligence, now the Naval Criminal Investigation Service I dedicated more time to the Air Force becoming a Mobilization Augmentee with service in the 1127th Special Activity Group, the Defense Intelligence Agency, The Defense Joint Staff and the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force as a;;Politico -Military Affairs Office. I retired from the Air Force as a Colonel On and off in the civilian sector I became a lawyer upon graduation from the law school at the Catholic University of America and became, first, a juvenile prosecutor and later a senior trail attorney with the US Justice Department. For a time I served as the Secretary General of an international group of lawyers known as the Inter-American Bar Association and various other business, legal and military organizations.