Greg served 22 years in the United States Marine Corps. Spent over ten non consecutive years in Japan. Retired in 1992 with an honorable discharged as Master Sergeant U.S.M.C..

In December 1995 Returned to the United States for to receive an education degree with plans to return to personal business and property in Japan.

Stunned at the decline in education and the poverty level I could not return to Japan. Since 1996 I have been involved in community services /organizing in an effort to improve reading and computer literacy, decrease our high school drop out rate and to reduce poverty.

Frederick Douglass, said “It is better to raise strong children than to try and repair a broken man.”.