4th Place

Stephen Tutor (sbt6450)

Dates Service: 1989 – Present

Branch: National Guard. Called to active duty in June 04, ARMY.

Units: 1/114th FA, 631st FA BDE, and 890th EN BN
Where: Camp Shelby Joint Force Training Canter, Camp Shelby MS

Position: MOS is 92Y and 92A. 

Comments: 17 years on the way to 30
Bracketology Secrets: Watch a lot of ESPN and go with my gut feeling. Always pick the SEC over everybody else. I feel for the hype that a 12 beats a 5 every year, but not this time, might have done better if I had not listened so much to ESPN!

5th Place

Reynaldo Bregaudit (REYNALDO.BREGAUDIT)

6th Place

7th Place

Isaac Vaughan (ivaughan)

Dates Service: Dec. 1973 – Dec. 1994

Branch: Army

Units: (C company 426th signal-Ft Bragg), (A and D company 304th signal- Camp Red Cloud/Camp Carroll Korea), (A and C company 440th signal-Darmstadt Germany), (229th Signal Company-Camp Humphreys Korea), (526th ,505th, 521st, 516th, and 209th signal companies of the 11th Signal Brigade at Fort Huachuca, Arizona)

Where: My basic training was in Fort Jackson, S.C., and AIT in Fort Gordon, Georgia. My first duty station was Fort Bragg, North Carolina to Korea and then back to Fort Bragg where I left the service for one year. I then decided to rejoin and became stationed at Fort Huachuca, Arizona to Korea-Germany-Korea and to Fort Huachuca where I retired in December of 1974.

Positions: I retired as a E-6/SSG in the signal field as a 31M-Tactical Satellite Operator/Supervisor and 26Q Multichannel Operator/Supervisor. 

Comments: I enjoyed serving in the military and the majority of those I have met also expressed the same response. Serving in the military was fun, and I learned a lot.
Bracketology Secrets: I was born in North Carolina, raised in the Washington, D.C./Maryland area, and now live in Tucson, Arizona. I knew that the four number one picks would make a strong run for the Final Four, although I should have realized the UCLA was better than I had given them credit for. I wanted North Carolina to win overall but I felt that this would not happen, in fact I knew Georgetown would defeat them. Early in the tournament, since I live in Tucson, I gave Arizona the benefit of the doubt over Purdue, but I knew I shouldn't have. This also caused me to lose some points. But overall I did well in choosing Ohio State and Florida in the championship with a combined total of 157 points. Of couse the combined total of points was 159 and I correctly chose the Florida Gators.

8th Place

Tyler Selvey (Tyleras)

Dates Service: 2003 – Present

Branch: Air Force

Unit: 138th Security Forces squadron

Where: Baghdad, Iraq

Position: Security forces member 

Backetology Secrets: Luck. ... I had watched most of the teams play and guessed on the teams I had never seen before. Really there was no strategy, just dumb luck.

9th Place

Dwayne Hopkins (hop1963us)

Dates Service: 1981 – 2003

Branch: Navy

Where: Naples Italy, USS Peleliu, USS Pyro, New Orleans, USS Kearsarge

Position: Leading CPO 

Bracketology Secrets: Just went with the higher seeds.

10th Place

Jonathan Barksdale (johnnyb80)

Dates Service: July 1999 – Present

Branch: Navy

Where: USS Peleliu; San Diego, CA: PSD Camp Pendleton, CA
Position: Personnel Specialist 

Bracketology Secrets: There will always be many upsets in a 64 team tournament you have to pick the most obvious ones. Pick teams that play defense. Unless there is a team that can prove to beat a conference champion or defending champion, do not go against the defending champion.