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 The School
 
 My ELINT classes began without a hitch. The ELINT school was held at 
			one of the NSA’s office complexes just north of Fort Meade called 
			the FANX (pronounced “FAN-EX”). It was a challenge to go to my day 
			classes and be expected to attend my night classes for PPD. By the 
			end of the first month I was exhausted. The exhaustion I felt wasn’t 
			so much a physical exhaustion, as it was a mental. Both classes were 
			mentally challenging but the PPD classes were challenging on a 
			different level. A level I wasn’t even aware existed prior to PPD 
			school.
 
			School for PPD started the same day as my ELINT classes. I met the 
			van after my ELINT classes had ended for the day, as instructed. As 
			soon as I entered the van and sat down, the doors locked, presumably 
			under the control of the driver. We drove for about a half an hour. 
			A pattern never seemed to develop in the turns and stops during the 
			trip, which prevented me from mentally mapping where I was being 
			taken. Right before the final stop we went through what would become 
			a familiar ritual of movements. A slow down, the front axle going 
			over a slight bump, then the back, the driver placing the engine in 
			park, and the “thunk” of the doors unlocking about 10 seconds after 
			the last bump.
 
			During this first day, the garage appeared much as it did before. 
			Absent of supervision, I looked around a bit more. The walls were 
			black. I looked at the doors that the van would have come through. I 
			didn’t see any evidence of sunlight coming through the cracks around 
			the doors. Although most days it was dark by the time I arrived at 
			PPD school, this first day I left the hotel just before dusk. The 
			entire time I attended PPD classes, I never once saw any sunlight 
			come into this room where the van would park. I came to the 
			conclusion that the building we were in was not out in the open, but 
			perhaps underground or hidden within a bunker of some sort.
 
			I placed my hand against the metal plate, heard the click, opened 
			the door and entered the vestibule. Making sure the door was shut 
			behind me, I went to the left wall and placed my forehead on the 
			visor. After a few seconds I heard a tone which was my cue to place 
			my hand against the metal plate once again. I entered the elevator, 
			pushed the one button and down I went.
 
			  
			After coming to a halt the 
			elevator doors opened and I stepped out into the room. The first 
			thing I saw was the pitcher of water on the table which reminded me 
			what the captain had told me about the water and the pills. I went 
			to the table, poured a glass of water, grabbed two of the four pills 
			sitting in the plate and popped them in my mouth and drank the water 
			to wash them down. I figured the other pills were for the other 
			student scheduled to attend classes at the same time.  
			  
			As soon as I sat down to my workstation, 
			the elevator doors slid open. I jumped slightly, startled by the 
			unexpected motion and noise. Out of the elevator stepped my 
			classmate whom I never once said a word to during the entire length 
			of our class together. I didn’t know his name, where he was from or 
			anything else about him. We simply nodded to one another and he sat 
			down. After taking his pills, he slid over to his workstation. He 
			appeared to be a bit more familiar with things than I.  
			  
			He moved with 
			the confidence that only familiarity brings. He put his headphones 
			on which reminded me that I needed to do the same. Sitting at my 
			workstation with my headphones on, I waited for my instruction to 
			begin and continued to look at my surroundings. The computer screen 
			in front of me was huge. I was used to working with screens a bit 
			smaller. I thought it was interesting that there was no mouse for 
			the computer.  
			With no warning, a voice started to speak to me through my 
			headphones. It sounded almost computerized, but not quite. I finally 
			came to the conclusion, over time, that it was a human voice but was 
			electronically altered slightly.
 
			 My instructor began with an overview of what I’d be learning over 
			the next several weeks. The overview took about 5 minutes, as I 
			recall. He closed the overview with a phrase that I would become 
			quite familiar with; “prepare for more information.”
 
			  
			This was always 
			to let me know that there would be a slight break before the next 
			learning session. 
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			Line Flattening
 
 I remember my first day of ELINT school being fun because I had a 
			lot of people to interface with. There was a lot of joking around as 
			well as a lot of good information to be learned.
 
			The first day of PPD school could not, in any way, be described as 
			fun. By my second day of attending PPD school I was sick and tired 
			of it and I didn’t want to go anymore. The novelty of being an 
			“intuitive communicator” had worn off.
 
			 The main reason why it wasn’t fun is that I didn’t have anyone to 
			talk to the whole time. I got 10 minute breaks every hour. But that 
			wasn’t much of a respite since I couldn’t go anywhere and I couldn’t 
			talk to the guy across the room.
 
			  
			We were not allowed to bring in any 
			reading material, paper or any other loose articles. Captain White 
			had been very clear on this. I presumed it was for security reasons, 
			although I could never figure out how a magazine would compromise 
			security unless they were worried we’d write something on it. We 
			weren’t even allowed to go to the restroom while we were in PPD 
			class. There were a few times this was a big issue for me. But I got 
			used to taking care of it before leaving the hotel. Like many other 
			things, I just had to grin and bear it and move on.  
			All these negative aspects notwithstanding, the school was 
			definitely challenging. But staying sane trying to keep up with my 
			ELINT studies and attending PPD classes was a feat. Both were 
			tiresome.
 
			When I began to put this book together, I struggled with how I would 
			describe to the reader what takes place when one intuitively 
			communicates. It’s very difficult to put into terms that can be 
			readily understandable. I compare this with the difficulty in 
			explaining the sense of sight to someone born without the capacity 
			to see. How would one describe the sense of sight in that case? It 
			would be nearly impossible. But I have attempted to put it into 
			terms from which the reader can at least establish a starting point 
			in the understanding process.
 
			My first lesson that first day, in PPD class, consisted of listening 
			to one tone and watching a box on my screen that had a perfect sinewave running through it. A perfect (360 degree) sinewave is a 
			line that forms a perfect arc and then repeats itself as a negative 
			arc. There were ten boxes like this one.
 
			 
			I was told to listen to the tone and try 
			to repeat it by mentally humming it - not verbally, only mentally. 
			At the same time, I was to watch my first box to look for movement 
			of the sinewave. The goal was to see the sinewave flatten 
			completely. This was obviously exotic technology I was working with 
			because how else could I affect a change on a sinewave without being 
			hooked to it somehow?  
			  
			Other than the headphones, which were only 
			used to listen to my instructor, I had no connection to the computer 
			on which I was working. I had a hard time believing I was going to 
			be able to manipulate the sinewave with only my mind. Nevertheless, 
			I listened to my instructor and did what I was told. The process was 
			slow, arduous and extremely boring.  
			That first day was defeating. I started wondering if I was going to 
			be a disappointment because I couldn’t “flatten my line.” As I 
			practiced mentally humming this note, I was told to watch the sinewave for any movement. I was told that I would see the sinewave 
			bend towards the center line; essentially making the sinewave flat. 
			It was around this time that I started to wonder how this skill 
			would be applied to communicating with aliens. It was a frustrating 
			time, not only because my progress was excruciatingly slow, but I 
			was questioning the validity of the ability in the first place.
 
			 It wasn’t until my third day that I saw progress. Imagine, mentally 
			humming a note for three to four hours straight, for three days! It 
			was borderline torture. I was beginning to think my abilities were 
			defective in some way. During this whole time my instructor was of 
			no help. He didn’t speak to me much during my first three days 
			because he couldn’t do anything with me until I began to flatten my 
			line.
 
			When I finally saw progress I nearly shot out of my seat and danced 
			around the room. I was sitting there looking at my screen as usual, 
			feeling defeat as I had been for the past two days when something 
			“clicked” in my mind. It’s very difficult to explain, but I felt 
			what seemed to be an audible click in my mind. Just at that moment 
			my sinewave flickered. Up until this point, that sinewave had been 
			as solid as a rock, with absolutely no movement. So when it finally 
			did move, it startled me. I wasn’t anticipating what had just 
			happened.
 
			  
			When the “click” happened, a straight line appeared on the 
			screen that marked the top of the positive sinewave (the part of the 
			sinewave above the straight line) and it stretched all the way to 
			the hash mark to the left of the screen. It gave you the ability to 
			gauge exactly how flat the line was becoming. Each hash mark 
			represented 30 degrees of flattening. There was a readout at the top 
			right hand corner of each sinewave box that would keep a constant 
			record of the flattest your line in that particular box had ever 
			become as well as the most recent measurement.  
			Although this first bit of success took three days, subsequent 
			successes came more quickly. Immediately after that moment when my 
			first “click” happened, my instructor was speaking to me in the 
			headphones giving me further directions on what I should be doing 
			next. It was like the horse track announcer saying “...and they’re 
			off!”
 
			 My next goal was to flatten the line in the first box (there were 
			ten lines total, each in their own separate boxes) a total of 360 
			degrees (180 negative, 180 positive). It took me the rest of my time 
			at school that day to do it. I finally got the readout to say 180 
			degrees just before leaving for the night. (The readout only 
			registered the positive fluctuations because the negative ones were 
			simply a mirror of the positive.)
 
			I went home exhilarated. I felt some sort of accomplishment. I also 
			felt that it was no longer something intangible. It actually 
			happened. I had used an ability that was given to me by an alien 
			race. This was a strangely powerful feeling. I went home feeling 
			like I could conquer the world. Of course, that only lasted until my 
			next lesson.
 
			  
			I had no idea how much more difficult things were going 
			to become.  
			 
 
 
			  
			  
			The day of my first success was a Friday. I had all weekend to savor 
			the victory and gloat. This was difficult because I had no one to 
			share it with. This was the first time (and definitely not the last) 
			that I felt quite alone and isolated from the rest of the world. I 
			wanted to call my best friend in California, but I couldn’t.  
			  
			During 
			the first few months after I became aware of PPD, I fought back 
			desires to tell someone about my new-found knowledge. It was very 
			difficult. The one thing that always was foremost in my mind was 
			that even if I did tell someone, the chances of them believing me 
			were minuscule. Because they may have a hard time believing, they 
			would view me differently and it would affect my relationship with 
			that person.  
			That next Monday didn’t come soon enough for me. Up until my 
			breakthrough on Friday, I had begun to dread coming to PPD class 
			because I felt like I wasn’t going anywhere. Now I was excited.
 
			My instructor started my next lesson off by playing another tone for 
			me to mentally hum. It was a different tone. I could tell because I 
			had become so familiar with the first tone that I started to dream 
			about it. As the second tone began I remember thinking, “I’ll knock 
			this one out in no time!”
 
			My confidence was warranted because I clicked on this one after only 
			30 or 40 minutes. I saw the marker line appear and the readout 
			jumped to 5. The clicking startled me again.
 
			I was able to flatten my second line in a matter of an hour or so 
			after it had clicked. As soon as I had caused the readout to display 
			180 degrees, my instructor began to speak to me once again. He spoke 
			sparingly, only when necessary to guide my actions. If I ever had a 
			question I had to type it in a feedback box on my screen. I rarely 
			had to do this though. I asked a few questions in the beginning, but 
			most of my questions were summarily disregarded as irrelevant and I 
			was audibly notified to continue my lesson. Most of the questions he 
			disregarded as irrelevant were questions about the project and who 
			I’d be talking to. He would only answer questions directly related 
			to my learning. If the questions were anything other than that I was 
			wasting my time.
 
			After I had flattened my second line, the third one came much more 
			easily. By the end of my lessons, on Tuesday, I had flattened all 
			ten lines the full 180 degrees required with the help of 10 
			different tones.
 
			By this time, the novelty of my situation had worn off a bit. I 
			started to fall asleep earlier at night after classes. This helped 
			my power of concentration at my ELINT class as well as my PPD class. 
			My ELINT classes were going well. I was enjoying the curriculum and 
			I found it extremely relevant to my regular Air Force job. My PPD 
			classes had absolutely no relevancy for me yet, but I was enjoying 
			the mental challenge it was providing. If I could have changed one 
			thing up to this point, it would have been the actual time my PPD 
			classes were held. It was very inconvenient because I barely had 
			enough time to wind down from a full day of ELINT classes before I 
			had to gear back up for PPD school.
 
			I had been late for my van on several occasions due to ELINT classes 
			letting out later than normal. Evidently, they were in tune with my
			ELINT classes and where I was in my schedule because each time I was 
			running late from ELINT class the van would inevitably arrive at my 
			hotel approximately 15 to 20 minutes after I did. They must have had 
			some way of keeping track of where I was during these times, 
			although I never felt like I was being followed.
 
			The next day of PPD classes, after successfully flattening all my 
			lines, was by far the most challenging. One of the exciting parts 
			about PPD school was that I never knew from one day to the next what 
			to expect. Each day was a mystery. This day brought the next big 
			challenge; flattening two lines at one time.
 
			My instructor told me to mentally visualize two points in space, 
			each representing separate tones that would be alternately played in 
			the headphones. As I did this I was to force the two points together 
			creating one point in space. He said that they would resist one 
			another like opposite poles of a magnet but that I had to visualize 
			myself sapping the energy from each of them, bringing that energy 
			towards myself, so that they would no longer be able to force 
			themselves apart.
 
			This exercise proved extremely difficult. My mind felt like it was 
			weightlifting the whole time. I thought the hard part of the school 
			had ended but it had only begun. It took me a full week to realize 
			my goal of bringing these first two points in space together. By the 
			time I was able to do this, my will to continue with PPD school had 
			almost been broken once again. I think that if I had been given a 
			choice, I would have ended my PPD schooling mid-way through that 
			crucial week.
 
			All this time, my silent classmate had come and gone each day just 
			like myself. I wondered if he took the same van as I did each day. I 
			came to the conclusion that it was impossible to do because we 
			sometimes arrived only a few minutes apart from one another. I saw 
			him in the dining hall within the FANX complex once. As we passed 
			one another we both smiled and simply nodded to each other. Nothing 
			was said, as was always the case.
 
			After I had successfully flattened two lines at once, my instructor 
			was quick to move me on to bigger and better things. My next goal 
			was an obvious progression by this time: to flatten three lines at 
			the same time. This presented an even bigger challenge. It was very 
			difficult to have the concentration necessary to bring the two 
			points in space together, but I had finally done it. To bring three 
			together seemed an impossibility.
 
			I dived into the flattening of three lines with vigor. I succeeded 
			in doing it the same day I started. It was at this point I started 
			to feel the nuances of my IC abilities. I was able to explore the 
			ability on a small scale. For lack of a better analogy it was much 
			like playing a mental pipe organ. You start to learn chords after a 
			while. It wasn’t quite like this, but it’s the closest I can come to 
			describing how it felt. I went on to flattening four lines at a 
			time.
 
			  
			It was a few days after I had flattened four lines 
			simultaneously that I saw the white van. 
 
			  
 
			  
			  
			I opened the door to the blue Air Force van, stepped out, and headed 
			to the vestibule door that would lead me to my PPD classroom, when I 
			caught a glimpse of light that seemed out of place within the 
			garage. I was quite familiar with this room by now and I knew that 
			the light I was noticing was not normal. I was so used to my routine 
			by this time that it hadn’t really dawned on me to attempt to 
			investigate this room in any great detail beyond an occasional 
			visual sweep. Of course, Casper the friendly van driver would always 
			stay until I had entered the vestibule. So this ruled out any 
			unsupervised exploring.  
			But this time, I couldn’t resist. I looked around trying to find the 
			source of the light. I turned back towards the van and to my right I 
			could see what appeared to be headlights shining on the wall in 
			front of the blue van. But I looked closer and noticed that it 
			appeared the lights were coming from a vehicle parked on the left 
			side of the blue van.
 
			 So I got up enough nerve to investigate. In order to do so, and at 
			the same time be as sneaky as possible, I walked to the back of the 
			blue van to see what was on the other side. I did this as quickly as 
			possible. I didn’t get too far when Casper honked his horn. Of 
			course, I nearly jumped out of my skin.
 
			But before he honked his horn, to presumably tell me I was not to go 
			where I was going, I got a quick glimpse of the backside of a white 
			van. After the honk, I immediately turned and rapidly walked towards 
			my authorized destination; the vestibule.
 
			On my way down the elevator, I kept wondering what was going to 
			happen now. Had I seen something that I wasn’t supposed to? Surely 
			the captain would find out. What would he say? What was another van 
			doing in the parking area upstairs? When the elevator opened up into 
			the classroom I halfway expected to find a maintenance man to be 
			working on something which would explain the van. But as was normal, 
			there was no one there. As I sat down to my lessons for the night, I 
			couldn’t get the white van out of my thoughts.
 
			Everything had fallen into such a routine that I had begun to take 
			everything for granted. I simply went to two schools now and I had a 
			routine for each. But the van sighting was something exciting and 
			out of the ordinary. It created a distraction in my daily routine. I 
			only hoped my snooping didn’t get me into trouble.
 
			As it turned out, the captain never once mentioned it. The next day 
			I braced myself for a meeting with the captain but it never came. I 
			was sure he found out, but was unsure why he never called me on it. 
			After a few days, I assumed it wasn’t as big of a deal as I had 
			thought. Then, I started thinking that he didn’t call me on it 
			because it was important but if he didn’t mention it I wouldn’t 
			think it had any significance and would forget about it. I drove 
			myself crazy second guessing the whole situation. I found, over 
			time, that you could easily do that when working around classified 
			projects. You start to question reality, or what seems to be 
			reality.
 
			From then on, every time I would step out of the blue van, I would 
			always look to my left to see if there were any headlights shining 
			on the wall. I never saw the lights again. I even squatted to try to 
			look on the other side of the van once but nothing was there.
 
			Gradually, the white van episode faded from my thoughts as I 
			continued to attend PPD school and discover my new abilities.
 
			I believe it was around the time I was attempting to flatten 9 lines 
			at once when the mysterious white van popped up in my life once 
			again. This time it was completely by accident.
 
			I was driving back to my hotel from a night out at the movies on a 
			Friday or Saturday night. I had just taken a two lane exit to my 
			hotel. While stopped at the light, behind several other cars, I 
			happened to glance over to my left and ahead of my position. I 
			noticed a white van that looked like it could have been the one I 
			saw in the PPD garage. The van was signaling to turn left and I was 
			going right. I looked at it closely to see if I could firmly 
			identify it as the one I had seen previously. I remember thinking 
			that it would be too coincidental for it to be the same one.
 
			Then I saw the dent.
 
			The white van I was looking at had a dent in the right rear corner 
			of the chrome bumper. It was in the same location I remembered 
			seeing a dent on the van in the garage before my snooping was 
			brought to an abrupt end.
 
			I became extremely excited. Could this be the same van? I suddenly 
			changed my turn signal to show I was trying to turn left. When the 
			light turned green I edged my way into the left lane and followed 
			the white van. My heartbeat quickened like a sprinter in search of a 
			gold medal. I was on to something! But just as suddenly as my 
			excitement came, dread started to hit me as well. Was I overstepping 
			my boundaries? Should I just back off and let it be? All these 
			questions started to crop up. What if this was the captain’s van? 
			Would he recognize me following him? I suddenly became petrified at 
			the prospect of being discovered, but my overwhelming curiosity got 
			the better of me so I continued to follow.
 
			It turned out I didn’t need to risk exposure for long. About a half 
			mile off the highway, in a little town called Linthicum, the van 
			signaled to turn right and pulled into the parking lot of a 
			business. I kept going, not wanting to be discovered. I quickly 
			turned around by doing a u-turn in the middle of the road and drove 
			back by the entrance to this business. I wasn’t paying attention to 
			the name of the business on the sign. My concern was where the van 
			went. It drove up and parked in front of the business. A man got out 
			and went into the building. Only after the man disappeared into the 
			building did I look at the name of the company. From the name on the 
			sign out front, it was obvious what their business was. The company 
			was involved with the technology of noise cancellation.
 
			 I drove away more confused than ever.
 
 
			  
 
			  
			
			After finding out the van was associated with this company, my 
			curiosity was running full throttle. I had to do a little research 
			to see what they did. I discovered that they are a small company 
			best known for their headphones. When worn, these headphones filter 
			the ambient noise normally heard by the wearer. The technology they 
			employ effectively cancels the ambient, or background, noise that 
			occurs in certain frequency ranges.
 
			I didn’t quite know what to do with this new information. What did 
			noise cancellation have to do with PPD? This bothered me during my 
			entire stay in Maryland.
 
 
			  
 
			  
			  
			Meanwhile, PPD school was progressing rapidly. By the end of my 
			third week I had flattened all ten lines simultaneously and was 
			ready to graduate to still more difficult tasks.  
			The goal during my fourth week was to practice and master flattening 
			lines in different combinations at once. By this time I could “feel” 
			movement in the boxes. Only later did I realize that it was quite 
			similar to communicating with my alien contacts. The windows not 
			only were responding to my input, I could sense their output as 
			well.
 
			  
			This helped me in subsequent lessons. It would be vital in 
			learning to assign relative meaning to the intuition. The audio 
			tones, so crucial in the early stages of my development, had ceased. 
			The tones were only used so that my human mind could relate to 
			something tangible to lead me to uncover what my mind could do 
			naturally once I had discovered and practiced it. The tones could be 
			described as the bridge. I had reached my destination now I had only 
			to learn to navigate in this new world.  
			In order to practice flattening separate combinations of lines at 
			once, I would watch my screen and see when different sinewave boxes 
			would light up. They would light up in different sequences first, 
			one at a time. Then it progressed to two at once, then three, four, 
			five...etc. All ten would then light up at once and I would have to 
			flatten all the lines at one time.
 
			My lessons were becoming much easier in comparison to my lessons 
			earlier in the learning process. I could feel my skills becoming 
			much stronger. I began to enjoy the school more because it wasn’t so 
			much of a threat to my ego anymore. It was as if I had taken off the 
			training wheels and was riding just fine on my own. Only now I was 
			getting to ride progressively bigger bikes, which was very 
			exhilarating.
 
			At this point, though, I still couldn’t quite make the connection 
			between what I was learning and how it would be applied to actual 
			communication.
 
 
			  
 
			  
			  
			I began to assign meaning to the flattening of lines during my fifth 
			week. In my interface box a string of numbers would scroll through 
			and I would see, as well as sense, my sinewave boxes light up 
			corresponding to each number. Numbers were easy because they 
			corresponded with the metric system in a way. The number 1 was the 
			flattening of the line in sinewave box number 1. The number 2 
			corresponded to box number 2 and so on. The number 11 would be the 
			flattening of lines in sinewave box number 10 and 1.  
			  
			Eleven and up 
			were a bit more complicated because depending on whether a number 
			like 21 was 21 or 12 would change the degree of movement realized by 
			the sinewave that would correspond to the second digit. The closest 
			analogy I can come up with in trying to explain these differences 
			between numbers is relating the process to phase angles. A phase 
			angle is the rate at which a frequency changes and is measured in 
			degrees. The sinewave in a particular box, relating to the number 
			being relayed, would have to be at a certain phase angle. The phase 
			angle would establish whether it were a 21, or a 12. Even this 
			analogy has flaws because intuitive communication has nothing to do 
			with frequencies or actual phase angles, but the concept is similar.
			
 
			By this time, the nuances of the 
			sinewave movements were becoming quite natural. I no longer would 
			feel the clicking any more because everything had already clicked 
			that was going to. By the time we got to the number 100, it had come 
			naturally and we didn’t need to go any further with numbers.  
			During the latter part of my sixth week we moved on to concepts. The 
			learning of concepts is much more difficult to explain, because by 
			this time my mind was uncovering the intuitive abilities at a record 
			pace.
 
			 At this point I must emphasize that intuitive communications is not 
			a language in the sense there are verbs, adjectives, syllables. I 
			simply started to comprehend what was going on in the pictures and 
			videos based on the combinations of lines being flattened.
 
			On the first day of concepts I was shown some pictures and sinewave 
			boxes would simply begin lighting up in quick sequences with each at 
			a different degree of flattening. I would automatically remember and 
			understand that the flattening sequence represented the picture(s) 
			shown at the time. In one day, we went from still pictures to video 
			with my mind grasping the line flattening combinations as quickly as 
			they came. It was much like a large scale memorization process. 
			Sometimes I found myself in awe of what was happening. It was like 
			we had awakened this ravenous monster and it needed to eat, gobbling 
			up everything in its wake.
 
			The last thing I learned was how to open a window to document the 
			results of my future communications (referred to as “comms”). In 
			order to document the comm I would be receiving from my 
			alien 
			contact I had to open an interface window in the background of my 
			computer screen. The day I was to learn this I came to school to 
			find a mouse set up near my computer terminal. In order to open the 
			window, I had to click the far right button of my mouse and press 
			the F10 key while the arrow was resting on the background screen of 
			the computer. A dialogue box would appear with several choices.
 
			During this reporting part of my lesson, my instructor became very 
			vocal. All the teaching regarding the reporting procedures was done 
			entirely via the headphones with my instructor speaking the whole 
			time.
 
			 My instructor went on to say that at each place I would be stationed 
			I would have the same PPD code name designated in the computer 
			system. My code name would be “Staunch-118.” After bringing up the 
			dialogue box, I would highlight Staunch-118 in the menu and type in 
			my password. My password would be given to me at each base I 
			reported to separately.
 
			So I typed in the test password he gave me after choosing 
			“Stauch-118” in the background screen of my computer. A separate 
			window appeared, with a blank screen. I was told that I would never 
			see anything contained within this screen, not even what I was 
			typing. This was for security purposes, in case someone were to see 
			what I was typing by accident.
 
			It was at this time I was taught how the comms were to be reported. 
			There were no hard and fast rules for reporting comms. I was to 
			separate each part of the comm by a “/” symbol and I was to place a 
			“///” at the very end of my report. That was it. Simple and to the 
			point.
 
			There were many questions I had but by this time I knew enough to 
			not ask my instructor because he wasn’t exactly forthcoming with any 
			information. He stuck to my lesson and that was it. No more, no 
			less.
 
			My official lessons were over after the reporting class. I can’t 
			remember how much longer I was in Maryland but however long it was, 
			I continued to come to the PPD school to practice my skills. I would 
			come to watch videos and watch my sinewave boxes light up in 
			response to my repeating back intuitively what I was seeing in the 
			videos. By this time, I could no longer correlate what the boxes 
			were doing. But it sure looked impressive seeing the boxes light up.
 My instructor would sometimes ask me to repeat certain video scenes 
			again. So it appeared that they were able to monitor my results for 
			accuracy. I’m not exactly sure how.
 
			The videos I was watching had no audio. They were random recordings 
			of people walking down the street, nature, people working, military 
			aircraft flying (helicopters and fixed wing). There was an 
			overwhelming amount of military images which I took as a sign I 
			would be reporting primarily military oriented comms. There must 
			have been 24 hours of video. As far as accuracy, my instructor only 
			had me repeat a few things. In essence, I assumed by now that I had 
			mastered my abilities.
 
			I felt quite proud of my new ability. I had this feeling of being 
			the chosen one. I think anyone would have felt this way, if placed 
			in the same position. But those feelings of superiority faded over 
			time. Mainly because there wasn’t anyone I could share this part of 
			my life with.
 
			I saw Captain White about a week before my ELINT classes were to 
			end. He showed up at the PPD classroom about the time I always left 
			for the night. He congratulated me on doing as well as I had and 
			came to wish me good luck in the future. The visit was also to let 
			me know that my PPD courses had come to an end. I had been 
			practicing for the last few weeks and he said it was time to wrap it 
			up.
 
			  
			During this last meeting he also told me what to expect next. I 
			was never to talk to anyone about this program unless the person was 
			introduced to me by Captain White as a third party introduction. 
			This is how Level 1 personnel kept control of the program. They had 
			to introduce lower echelon personnel to someone before they could 
			discuss anything. He told me I would be getting orders to go 
			somewhere soon. He didn’t tell me where, but that was okay by me 
			because I was ready to leave my current assignment and use my new 
			abilities.  
			That last meeting with Captain White was unceremoniously short. He 
			exited the room through the door next to my workstation that I had 
			never seen anyone use and which had blended into my surroundings 
			until now. I took a closer look at it. It looked like it was part of 
			the wall but upon closer inspection I noticed it had a recessed door 
			latch and the door slid open, disappearing into the wall behind my 
			workstation, instead of opening in or out like normal doors.
 
			 I left the room for the last time and climbed into the van waiting 
			for me upstairs. The drive home was uneventful. I was hoping to get 
			a glimpse of my van driver this time but he would always drive off 
			immediately after I shut the door. I didn’t care anymore. I had 
			stopped trying to find things out. It took too much energy and 
			wasn’t worth my time. The van drove off and I never saw the blue van 
			or its mysterious driver ever again.
 
			I went up to my hotel room that night wondering where life was going 
			to lead me now. Especially since I was no longer in control of it.
 
			
			The captain never once mentioned the white van incident. I was 
			relieved by that.
 
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			Photographs
 
 
			
			 This is the graduation certificate awarded to me for completing 
			Course EA-280.
 
			
			At the same time, I was going to school at night to 
			learn how to utilize my intuitive communications abilities.  
			
			There 
			was no certificate for that course. 
			
 
  This was my permanent change of station (PCS) orders, which took me 
			from PPD Base #1 to PPD Base #2.
 
			
			Certain sensitive information has 
			been intentionally blacked out.  
			
			Still, the information left 
			untouched is very interesting to the curious eye. 
 
  This was the view from the balcony of my dorm at PPD Base #1.
 
 
			 Another view from the balcony of my dorm.
 
			
			The white dome in the 
			distance is where I worked. 
 
  Here, I’m pictured climbing on of our parabolic antennae.
 
			
			This is 
			the antenna under the white dome pictured in the last photo.  
			
			This 
			was during deconstruction of the site.  
			
			You can see part of one of 
			the C-Vans in the lower right corner. 
 
  An official portrait taken in 1986.
 
			
			This was four years before my 
			cross-train into the electronic intelligence career field.  
			
			My 
			military career was a lot less complicated then. 
 
			
			
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