Michael McGarreyMichael McGarrey is a Texas native that hails from the little big town of Fort Worth. He graduated from R.L. Paschal High School in 1999. While in high school, he worked as a baker at a cafeteria all four years and rode bulls independently for three ears in high school and one year after he graduated. After high school, Michael worked as a plumber in Fort Worth for a company that specialized in large industrial and commercial type plumbing. His primary focus was large food processing plants. Michael worked in Fort Worth as a plumber until 2006, when he moved to Manhattan, New York. Michael lived in New York for a year, where he also worked as a plumber. He was assigned a boiler room for Columbia University. Once completed, he had enough of New York and returned to Texas. Not able to find the kind of work he desired as a plumber; Michael decided to enter the United States Army as an Infantryman. Michael graduated from One Station Unit Station from Fort Benning, Georgia, in May of 2008. Out of 54 men in the 3rd Platoon of 2/54, he was the only one chosen to go to the tundras of Fort Drum. He deployed to Iraq with the 10th Mountain Division, then PCSed to 101st Airborne Division. He then deployed to Afghanistan with the 101 before exiting the military in late 2014. After the army, Michael worked as a defense contractor in the U.S. before determining that his infantry personality wasn't conducive for corporate America. However, while working for said company, Michael got into recreational bodybuilding thanks to a good friend he knew from high school.After leaving the defense contractor, he went back to work as a plumber. Only to find out that the construction world was now full of weak, thin-skinned people. And that while he still felt young most of the time, his back reminded him that 1 year in the Army Infantry adds 3 years to your body. So, he hung up his work boots, put on his cowboy boots, and moved to Tennessee to help an old army buddy start a cattle operation. After about half a year, that was done, and he decided to become a writer. He began by becoming a ghostwriter for companies that do question and answer articles on search engines. If you read an article about the best off-road tires for a Toyota Tacoma, or Tundra chances are he wrote it. Now he is writing his first book titled "Life's Memorable Moments." The book will be two volumes of ten short stories each. The stories are about particular events in Michael's life, pre- and post-military, that Michael finds quite hilarious. Michael believes the world could use a little laugh, even if it's at him. And that people need to learn not to take themselves so seriously. Volume 1 will be out in 2022. Read More Read Less