Salaam,

I am a Submitter to God Alone

I come from a large family; I have eleven siblings which consist of 1-sister, 5-half-sisters, 3-half-brothers, and 2-step-brothers. My mother came from a farming family in Northern Illinois, and there were twelve in her family. While growing up, we would spend time in the summer with one of the Aunts or Uncles, which of course were all of different faiths. These ranged from Catholic, Lutheran, Baptist, Methodist, LDS and a few others I cannot even remember. All of them being true to their faith would have me Baptized in their faith to ensure that I would be saved. Because of this I had a very strong beginning in religion.

During the middle years, I became an Agnostic, mainly because all that they had told me did not make any sense to me. I found that these people would tell me to do one thing and then they would do another, they were not living the faith they told me that I had to live. During this time I studied many religions around the world and found all of them lacking. There was something missing, I could not put my finger on what it was, but I knew that it was not what I was looking for.

After spending 24 years in the U.S. Navy, I retired to a civilian job of teaching Electronic Fundamentals to the Saudi Arabian Air Defense Forces. During this time I was introduced to "Islam" and was give a copy of the Quran by one of my students. I began to read the Quran, but found it difficult to comprehend. The reason for this was the "footnotes" on every page that explained what I was suppose to understand from the verses. I would read the verse and then read the footnotes, and the two being different confused me, so I stopped studying the Quran. For several more years I keep searching, but found nothing of interest.

Then by chance I came across the "Submissions.org" web site on the Internet. I began to read some of the articles, the more I read the more I wanted. I was hooked. I learned of Dr. Rashad Khalifa, and the Miracle of 19. I ordered a copy of his translation of the Quran and began to read it. Everything started falling in place and I was able to understand a lot of what I read.

I asked the folks in Tucson if there were any Submitters in the Los Angeles area that I could talk to, and they gave me the name of a person in Santa Monica, and may God bless him and his family for all the support they have given me.

Over the course of the last several years I have continued my study of the Quran and have accepted it completely. I have submitted to God, and embraced the religion of Abraham (Monotheism). The more I read the Quran the more I learn, I find it complete and fully detailed, every time I have found a conflict, it has been within me, and my interpretation which has been wrong.

I have been greatly blessed with guidance from our Lord. I urge you to begin reading the Quran (English Translation) which is being added to this site as the translation progresses. This translation is being performed by Dr. Ali Fazely, an Iranian/American Professor of Physics in Baton Rouge. His translation is bit different, in that he is translating exactly from Arabic to English, even if it may make no sense to us, other translators have seen this and gave us their opinion of what they thought the passage meant. Dr Fazely is not doing this, his translation is direct, and if it does not make sense to you then you need to pray for guidance and when the Lord wills to inform you of its meaning it will then become clear to you. I know this for a fact as it has done so for me.

I have included links to all of the Muslim Prospective, monthly newsletters written and edited by Dr. Rashad Khalifa before his murder in 1990.

I have also included all of the Journal of Submission, newsletters written and edited by Dr. Ali Fazely that I have been able to collect. These are not complete, some of the copies I obtained were not complete and there are several missing from the listing. But what I do have, I hope you will enjoy, and be enlightened by.

There is also a link to photos taken at the Submitters Conference's for the years starting in 2001 and 2002. For obvious reasons this link is "password protected" for the privacy of persons that attended the conferences.

My occupation is as a Electronics Maintenance Technician, Teacher, and Technical Writer for Electronics Equipment and Systems. I have worked in all of these fields since Retiring from the U.S. Navy.

My Resume
(Acrobat PDF format)

My current position is with ITT-Gilfillan Division. I am an Electronic Maintenance Instructor for the Ground Control and Precision Control Radar for airports around the world.

I have worked in Aerospace for Litton DSD/DCS, Bendix Oceanics, TRW, and Datron Systems. For these companies I have maintained, taught, and wrote maintenance for Computer Systems, Communications Systems, Sonar Systems Radar Systems, and WAN/LAN Systems.


I have also worked for Walt Disney Imagineering, writing maintenance manuals for the Show Control, Audio Video, and Ride Control diciplines for attractions in the various Disney Theme Parks throughout the world.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I spend 24 years in the U.S. Navy. My primary duties were as a Radioman, which means that I operated the radio equipment aboard naval ships and stations. As a re-enlistment bonus I was sent to an exclusive school that taught me advanced electronics maintenance and repair. I also achieved the distinction of a Communications Systems Control Supervisor which maintained the World Wide Naval Communications Network.

Having spend 24 years (mostly at sea) I traveled around the world and say many places and enjoyed learning about many cultures throughout the world. I have found that the people throughout the world want the same things out of life. No mater where I went I found great people and formed some lasting friendships with them.

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Litton DCS was an interesting experience, I taught the Saudi Arabian Air Defense Forces to operate and maintain a defense system that was developed by Litton for Saudi Arabian. The men that I taught greatly differed in age, some from 18 to 45 years of age. Some of the younger men came from a family that did not speak English in any manor. These young men were sent to school over a period of 18 months where they had to learn English to a degree that they could read and understand Electronic Equipment Technical Manuals including schematics and wiring diagrams. This is a task that I do not believe I could have done myself, but they performed the task very well.

I learned a great many things from my Saudi students. For one thing they had the ability to judge a person character quite accurately from the shortest contact time with them. They were very astute at assessing your creditability just from your expressions and body language. Something that westerns have lost or may possibly never had.

The equipment they had to learn was a Defense Accusation Radar, UHF/VHF Communications, and Weapons (A-Hawk) System. Each of these systems were broken down into numerous component modules that made up the entire system.

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I spent several years as a Job Shopper, for various companies such as Daton Systems which developed Ground Satellite Receiving stations, and Mobile Satellite receiving dishes for the U.S. Army. I was a technical writer for the operations and maintenance of these equipment's. Upon completion of the technical writing, I would teach the operations and maintenance to a core of military instructors on the disciplines.

During this time I also worked for Bendix Oceanics writing Depot Level maintenance manuals for the U.S. Navy and for various Foreign Countries that purchased the Dipping Sonar equipment. I was also responsible for teaching the U.S. Military and the Foreign Military the maintenance of the sonar set.

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At TRW, I was contracted to create and write the General Support/Direct Support technical maintenance manual for the Cheyenne Mountain and SAC HQ Omaha communications system upgrade. This system consisted of a redundant High Speed Backbone LAN using DEC 9000 Mainframes with multiple processors. The backbone network, broke down into several sub-nets throughout the complex using Ethernet across electrical and Fiber Optic media.

I was able to travel to several foreign sites to install the system for allies that participated in the system.

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Walt Disney Imagineering, was I believe the best job I have every had, and had it be known I would have paid them for the chance to work there.

I was hired to write the Show Control System discipline for the new Disney "California Adventure" Theme Park in California. The Show Control System consisted of several computer systems, support equipment, cables, interfaces, and devices that performed the various shows that are seen throughout the park. After completing the California Adventure, I was assigned to the Tokyo DisneySea Theme Park, where the engineers had designed a completely new method of controlling the show devices. I was responsible for developing the Reference Manual on the new system. I was also tasked to write each individual Show System throughout the park. Completing the Tokyo project, I worked on the new Paris Parc II project that was an addition to DisneyLand Paris.

During my stay at Imagineering, I was able to work on and open three new theme parks around the world, this was a very exciting time for me and I hated to leave.

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With ITT-Gilfillian, my primary responsibility is to teach customers around the world in the Operations and Maintenance of the Ground Control and Precision Radar for their airports. My secondary responsibility is to perform research and technical writing for the Operations and Maintenance Technical manuals for the various Radar Sets.

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