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My name is Patrick Shank. My father, Ray Shank, was an electrical design engineer. He was in radio first (military and commercial), while he attended school for electrical design. After college, he was recruited to go to Libya. During his career he worked on a number of SAP (special access programs), SR-71, Nike Missiles, Titan 1, Titan 2 missiles, Mercury, Gemini and Apollo Missions, Tomahawk Cruise Missiles. Partial llist of some contractors he worked for: Hycon Page - 1950s Bell Labs - 1950s Lockheed - Late 1950s NASA - 1960s and 1970s Aramco - 1970s NASA (second Time) - 1980s Martin Marietta - 1980s McDonnell Douglas - 1990s (Retired) 1950s - He designed and built a radio listing station in Libya - for Hycon Page which later ended up being used to help the Israelis in two wars. Later he was told to leave by the Gaddafi regime. My father, wife and my sister had 24 hours to leave. But this put him in a good position with the Department of Defense, which offered