The Army was my road to porn.
I remember the day before I shipped off to basic training me and some of the other future soldiers from San Diego were put up in a motel near the airport by good ol Uncle Sam. I was 19 about to turn 20 in a couple weeks and being I would be in basic training without the ability to really celebrate me and another guy thought it would be a great idea to go out to the strip club. 9 weeks being locked in a room with 60 other guys definitely called for some female contact. So we walked to one a few blocks away and had a good time. I don't even remember what the girls looked like all I remember is I found one to my liking and spent what I had on lap dances. It was my goal to leave the club smelling like her, at the time I knew why I wanted that but 10 years later I have no clue. I'm sure it had something to do with the fact I had only had 2 girlfriends up to that point. I still had an innocence to me that created fantasies when a girl showed me some attention. Any girl that I developed a crush on would instantly be transported into my fantasy. Didn't matter if it was a stripper, crush from high school, girl at subway making my sandwich whoever it was if I was attracted to her BAM in my head we were married. How do we do that to ourselves? Is it society that gives us delusions of what is real? We will talk about that question later.
Basic training went fast. I had fun I got to shoot guns, throw a grenade, run obstacle courses, and see what 3 lbs of C4 inside a claymore mine exploding looks and feels like. After basic training I went on to my first of two AIT schools (Advanced Individual Training for the civilians) that would be where they train you in your army specific job. Normally you only have one AIT but because the job I signed up for is a field the military considers “Voluntary” based on how hazardous it is along with the fact that there was a 90% wash out rate from difficulty they train you in a regular job in order to keep you in the army should you fail. The first one was 10 weeks long then after that I would get sent down to Florida for the second one but life didn't play out that way.
After completing the 10 weeks instead of leaving I was put on security hold because my top secret clearance hadn't been approved yet. So for the first few months of security hold I stayed in the same barracks I had already been in for school but moved to an area where holdovers were kept. The holdover area consisted of people who were on security hold, medical hold, PT hold or those that were getting kicked out for whatever reason. It was pretty laid back we just did little jobs around the barracks during the day then hung out at night. Generally people get moved on to where they should be going but I was there on hold for a year. Within that year the made me permanent party, meaning I got a job on base, had a little apartment and was able to have my truck shipped to me. I was able to go off base when ever I wanted after work and on weekends etc. I made some civilian friends that I would hang out with as well. I got bored and being my nature of greed my first major act of fraud happened while in Alabama. Not going to give details being I can't seem to find if the statute of limitations is up but I never got caught. If you believe that everyone in the military is an honorable person you must live in the same bubble where there aren't racist police officers and politicians always tell the truth. EVERYONE is capable of inappropriate behavior. I knew many people in the army that were not good people doing drugs, alcoholics, fighters you name it the military has it just like everywhere else. After all it is made of up humans and we aren't perfect. The other thing I did in my boredom was shoot video and learn web design. That would be where my interest in the porn business came from as well.
Being I was a young male with a pulse I looked at porn but aside from self gratification I also saw the money side of it. In the year 2000 sites were very low quality on the graphics side of things so I looked at that as “how hard could it be”. When I got out of the Army a couple years later I started going to conventions and making some contacts. If you happen to know the names Tera Patrick, Stephanie Swift, Stormy, Gauge, Peter North, Sky Lopez or Craven Moorehead check back in a month to hear how I know them... and you will also find out why I contacted XXX Church.
