User:GABaker

I have enjoyed working on Wikipedia. I came here after seeing an article on Kuro5hin, checked it out, and found that I could make a positive contribution.

Biographical Information
Full name: Gregory Albert Baker (there are a lot of us in this world) Birth: September 20, 1955, in Washington, D.C. Education: B.Sci, University of Maryland; Empire State Military Academy, Army OCS; couple of computer schools

City: Odenton, Odenton, Watch Your Step, Odenton, Maryland Profession: Technical writer and substitute teacher; occasional writer of fiction and nonfiction Family: wife, daughter, two cats

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Interests and Hobbies

 * International broadcasting
 * Shortwave radio; I've been listening since 1968
 * Open-source intelligence gathering
 * Music, listening and playing

Dumb Facts About Me

 * I was born in the eye of a hurricane. No, I'm not Jumping Jack Flash.
 * I'm a distant cousin of former Vice President Albert Gore.

Contributions to the Wikipedia
Articles started:
 * Voice of America
 * Broadcasting
 * International broadcasting
 * Civil Air Patrol
 * Longwave
 * Mediumwave
 * Black comedy
 * Alas, Babylon
 * Fail-Safe
 * Soviet submarine Komsomolets
 * Fort George G. Meade
 * Knots
 * Ded reckoning
 * Lord Haw-Haw
 * Northwest Ordinance
 * STANAG
 * Motion picture rating systems
 * Ace
 * Ship prefix
 * Order of battle
 * Business process improvement
 * IBM Message Queue Interface

Articles to which I contributed more than minor material:
 * Propaganda
 * Dictionary attack
 * Shortwave
 * Winfield Scott
 * BBC World Service
 * World War III
 * Detective
 * Battle of Tsushima
 * Military doctrine
 * Chechnya
 * William Joyce
 * George Washington
 * Arab League
 * Russian submarine Kursk
 * Military intelligence
 * Merkava

Please note: I truly value working collaboratively with other people on this project, and do not want to be seen as grabbing credit in a collaborative work. However, I am also proud of what I write; furthermore, if anyone has a specific criticism of my facts or my style, I would be glad to address that. As Huey Long once said, "He who does not toot his own horn, the same shall not be tooted."

Other Stuff

 * The Battle of Hell, Kentucky; An Essay in Creative History
 * Contributions to the UNCLE/Callahan series on alt.callahans. including the Bunnies
 * Contributions to Plastic.com