His command spans the Atlantic Ocean and reaches into the Mediterranean Sea and the Caribbean Sea.
Reason knows the irony of American culture.
The same country that has entrusted him with this vital element of its security is also home for some who would deny him and his family their own basic security. He recalls, for instance, that while he was serving in the Vietnam War in the 1970s, someone burned a cross, the ultimate symbol of racist hatred, on the lawn at his home in California where his wife and two children were living. I've been following the path he laid. I hope there are others in his wake. As a young man, Reason developed an insatiable thirst for leadership and for knowledge.