Martin_Hyde:
I retired from the Army; I had always wanted to be more involved in local politics. I had been active in the Republican party unit committees for my home area, but there were limits to how involved I could be due to regulations about active-duty service members and partisan politics (also just the fact I would sometimes be moved away for years at a time presented logistical barriers to greater involvement); school board was a way to get involved and intersected with some of my interests. I was elected two times and then retired because about halfway through my second term I had entered into a business partnership which I still manage, and that significantly reduced my free time for political activity and being involved in an elected board + running the business were just more time than I wanted to invest away from leisure activities.
Well now hold on, Martin… you say there you were elected twice to the school board, but only after you got out of the Army (which you agree was in the early 2000s , right?)
And yet here…
You served only once and in the mid-1990s?
Huh?