Roy McArdle grew up in California, where he excelled in athletics all the way through college. He entered the U.S. Army where he was trained as a radio operator in Morse Code. His ...view moreRoy McArdle grew up in California, where he excelled in athletics all the way through college. He entered the U.S. Army where he was trained as a radio operator in Morse Code. His time in service was served at Fort Gordon, Georgia and Fort Bragg, North Carolina. After leaving the military, he would end up as a commercial diver running dive operations that employed active duty and retired Navy SEALs, with an emphasis on hull maintenance of ships and boats. During this time, he pursued his California Teaching Credential, where he eventually graduated with a Masters Degree in Secondary Education. The opportunity arose to teach while overseas in South Korea at places such as The Republic of Korea (ROK) Naval Academy, The ROK Defense Institute of Language, and The ROK War College. He would be recruited to work for Samsung Heavy Industries in Koje-do Island as a teacher, where he would work for three years in the language department, before eventually running an International School for dependents of foreigners working overseas in Korea in the shipbuilding industry. Roy finally returned to California where he has been teaching over twenty years in secondary education. The last ten years has been in alternative education for his school district working with youth coming out of the Juvenile Hall system.view less