I don't know how many remember him, he did most of his posting before 2005 (before I joined) but came back for a while after. He had the great ability to tell a humorous story well. He was a one man campaign vs. Smilies.
I know he retired from the Navy as a Chief and lived and worked fairly close to me. He nearly came by for one of my Dopefests but it did not work out for him at the time. I think he was only around 2 years older than I but I could be remembering wrong.
I read about it on the SDMB.