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From the U.S. Navy to M.J. Electric

I'm Skyler Phillips. I work at M.J. Electric, and I oversee the quality and project controls departments. I grew up in Kansas. Spent most of my early years there and, just kind of through chance, wound up in the military. I joined the Navy at about 19 years old and went into their nuclear power program. That sent me up to the Great Lakes for boot camp. I moved to Charleston, South Carolina and then to upstate New York in the Saratoga Springs area in the training pipeline. I ended up out in Virginia Beach, stationed at Norfolk Naval Station and went on four deployments on the USS Enterprise aircraft carrier. It was there I met my wife, Jamie. My wife was a reactor operator. We met on the aircraft carrier. We were on the same watch. Talk about getting to know somebody before you ever go on your first date. That describes our relationship. We would spend five hours together at a time, locked in a room. Talking about everything--life, where you grew up, and a lot of the stories about, you know, Iron Mountain in the Upper Peninsula. I was pretty hyped about the U.P. before I'd ever even been there. We spent countless hours together just learning about each other, and that developed over time. We both found ourselves single, and we said, "Alright, maybe we should try this," and that was really our first date. My wife's family is in the Hermansville area, and still to this day. I traveled up here with her, after we were dating for about a year, and we spent Christmas at each other's folks' houses. That was my first experience up here. Snow on the ground, and we went on snowmobile rides. I left with just great memories, and I felt like I could see myself setting up roots with a family in this area before we moved here. My wife ended up getting out of the military before I did by a couple of years. She took a job at the time with Oldenburg Group, which had a presence at the shipyard in Newport News, which is right near the Hampton Roads area. She was able to work out of that office and be a little bit remote, and then ultimately moved up here on my last deployment and kind of set up shop for us. When I got back, I immediately got my honorable discharge, grabbed my papers and ran to Michigan.