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Navy personnel capitalized by the Defense Finance and Accounting Service
(DFAS). At DFAS, I continued to develop and implement financial

management systems. Some of the financial management systems I worked
with include the Standard Accounting and Reporting System (STARS) and the
Defense Travel System (DTS).

I am Dr. John L. McCoy and I was first acquainted with service in the
Federal Government as a graduate student at the University of Chicago, when

I was invited by the U. S. Army Quartermaster/Food and Container Institute
to assist in collecting data about soldiers’ behavior on the polar ice cap in
northern Greenland.

As an Army psychologist, I also studied soldiers’ attitudes toward foods in the
jungles of Panama. Subsequently, I have worked for several agencies
including: The Food and Drug Administration, the Agricultural Research

Service and the Economic Research Service of the Department of Agriculture,
which supported my doctoral dissertation research concerning effects of
racism in the Mississippi Delta.

I was subsequently employed by the Office of Research and Statistics in the
Social Security Administration as Senior Research Analyst to study the
economics of health care, disability, and long-term care.

My last work prior to retirement was as Chair of the Economic Security
Technical Working Group of the Taskforce on Aging Research, National

Institute on Aging. I have always considered work for the Federal
Government an honor and a privilege as well as professionally satisfying.

I am Neil McGrath, Registered Professional Engineer, and I have served for
34 years in U.S. Civil Service and related government service.

As a Student Trainee with Naval Underwater Ordnance, I assisted in the cal

(calibration) lab, as an onboard boat microwave ranger, and helped with
torpedo fire control mods, acoustic tests, and sub missile research documents.
With the Raytheon Company, I operated a tester for ballistic missile radar

components and wrote up procedures in my capacity as a Student Trainee. I
also served as a Trainee with Naval Facilities Engineering, Washington, D.C.,
and Indian Head Naval Ordnance Station Maryland, where I composed

construction specs, served as project field inspector, and prepared electrical

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