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James David Beauchamp Jr.
I am a 53 year old CAP member, who is less active these days than I would like to be. I started out in the Decatur Composite Squadron in Decatur, Alabama. While there, I served as the Alabama Wing's first Webmaster, and created the first web site used by the Alabama Wing. These were heady days, where the CAP brass did not understand the impact of the world wide web. A few other webmasters in our area and I met at Maxwell AFB (National HQ), and held the first Webmaster Training for the South East Region.
While we could see the benefit, it was very interesting about five years later when the CAP National Vice Commander was at the South East Region conference, apologising for the National Website being down for maintenance.
I did a few other things in CAP, I founded the Valkyrie Cadet Squadron in Denver, Colorado, and grew it in the first two years to 44 Cadets and 10 Senior Members. We were very proud of the fact that over 80% of our roster was present in each meeting. To our good fortune, Col John Buschman told me of the Wings over the Rockies Air and Space Museum, which was really cool. We had access to Retired Air Force Colonels who taught our Aerospace Education classes, and after George Lucas held his Episode 1 kickoff celebration in the Museum, we were the only CAP squadron to bost having our own X-Wing fighter (yes, it was one of the four built for the first Star Wars movie.)
Of late, I am working as the Data Processing Manager for a Small Defense company, providing engineering support to the US Army.
Oh, and I am the same MAJ Jim Beauchamp who founded the CAP SETI@Home team.
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I have always been interested in Space Travel, my first career goal was to either be a Chemist (not Pharmacist) or an Doctor of Aerospace Medicine. Statistically, there has to be some intelligent life out there, but the problem is, in who's galaxy and when?
However, the BIG SCIENCE that SETI@Home pioneered is in the massively parallel process that is running this application. Even if we never find life out in the universe, SETI@Home really made a major scientific breakthrough in Computer Science....That, by itself, is fantastic. |
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