I am Brian Peck, a 33 year old, married, father of two awesome boys (8 and ten months). I spent ten and a half years in the United States Marine Corps where I worked as an air traffic controller. I got out to start my own farm and food truck but ended up moving to State College to work at the airport and go to school instead! I was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan and spent my later growing up years in Dallas, Texas, where I enlisted into the Marine Corps. I am interested in the Agricultural department, I want to own my own farm and store/restaurant/butcher/what ever else I can think of! So I am pursuing knowledge in the Ag field and business management, or something like that! (I really have no idea what I’m doing!) This course meets some requirement of mine and it looks interesting, I really just want to learn a little bit about everything.

I never gave geography much thought until now and realize how much I have used it in the past. From planning operations and site selection for FARP’s (forward arming and refueling points) to reading maps and figuring scale and position for troop movement, utilizing different aspects of geography, perhaps in a skewed fashion but I have used it nonetheless. Watching the video “Powers of Ten” was interesting, and that was made in 77! can you imagine if they re-made that video today? scaling down to the cell in the blade of grass under the picnic blanket? that would be interesting.

I look forward to working through this class this semester, I think it will truly be interesting. Good luck to you all!