A Massachusetts native Kevin received his commission from NROTC at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. After his initial sea tour he transferred to the Aviation Maintenance Duty community serving in squadrons and aboard aircraft carriers. After his last sea tour as Aircraft Intermediate Department Officer aboard USS Dwight D. Eisenhower CVN-69 he spent a year as a student at the Naval War College. Retiring as a commander he worked as a contractor supporting the Navy’s Tomahawk Missile Program Office. Now fully retired he and his wife Ramona moved to Etowah, NC not far from where Ramona grew up on a dairy farm in Mills River. They have three grown children, four grandsons, a cat and a turtle.