CHICAGO — Growing up in Chicago, a smart kid who studied only enough in school to get by, Frederick Davis turned to the military — the Navy, in fact — to “get me on track” in life.
As it turned out, despite thinking of himself as “mechanically inclined,” Davis possessed a technical aptitude which moved him from a job as diesel tech to being in charge of the calibration shop aboard his ship.
Even better, the young man noted, “I realized this is what I like doing.”
