A 24-year Navy veteran, Commander Lois entered the Navy through the Naval Aviation Cadet program in January 1963. Upon completion of training in Pensacola he earned his officer’s commission and wings as a naval aviator and went on to serve as a search & rescue helicopter pilot for five years with the Atlantic and Pacific Fleets. He directed the Naval Air Training Command Choir from 1969 to 1971. With his degrees in Communications Management, he then switched his professional designator to serve as a Navy Public Affairs Officer (PAO).  In the following years he was the PAO for Naval Station Roosevelt Roads, Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, in the office of the Secretary of the Navy, the Navy Recruiting Command, Naval Air Forces Atlantic Fleet, Naval Reserve Force and Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Atlantic Fleet. After Navy retirement he worked for 19 years as Director of Corporate Communications for two Fortune 500 companies in New York. He now lives in Prescott, Arizona where he volunteers at the regional VA Hospital and with the Sheriff’s Search & Rescue Posse.