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Richard Riccardelli

Married 1972 Jan Anderson, 4 children (UNC, NC State, Univ of Utah. Savannah College of Art & Design, and Rutgers Law grads) and 2 grandchildren. Jan graduated from Methodist College ...Art Teacher for several years ...Jan is currently a Sr staff member at Mt Vernon (Martha & George Washington's home).

Seton Hall University (BA), Ohio University (MS), Averett University (MBA), and NSU abd (all but dissertation) PhD in business ...32 yr career in the US Army ...retired Colonel. Ranger, Special Forces, Master Parachutist (141 jumps out of perfectly good airplanes and helicopters), Norwegian trained, U.S. Army special forces Cross-country ski and cold weather survival instructor...Senior Intelligence Officer, 101st Airborne Division (Iraq), 82d Airborne Division (Haiti), Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), 2nd Infantry Division (Korea), 10th Special Forces Group (Mass and Bad Tolz), XVIII Airborne Corps, Senior Army Intelligence Officer for Latin America; three tours, Pentagon; US Army Command and General Staff College, US Army & US Air Force War Colleges, USN/USMC Flag/General Officer Program, Kenan-Flagler Business School, UNC Chapel Hill & the Senior Government Executive Program, Kennedy School, Harvard. Several years on the executive staff of a Fortune 500 IT Company. For the last 6 years ...U.S. Government senior national intelligence executive. Currently on a special operations assignment at the Pentagon. Hobbies: gardening, running, reading, orienteering, tinkering and kayaking (building and for fly fishing).

We live in Northern Virginia ...but lived in Georgia, Louisiana, Arizona, Massachusetts, Kansas, Illinois, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Pennsylvania and Virginia and overseas ...Germany (5 yrs (2 children born in Heidelberg)), Korea (2 yrs, Tongduchon, Sibyon Ni, Chorwon Valley), Norway (Dombas, Elverum, Bodo), Denmark (Aalborg & Skystrup) , Israel (near BG Airport), UK/Scotland (RAF Newburgh, RAF Sculthorpe & Leuchars RAF Station), Saudi Arabia (Dahran, Rafah), Iraq (multiple locations), Panama (office overseeing the Miraflores Locks on the Pacific side of the Canal)... 24 moves over the past 40+ yrs. Whew!

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