Meyers was Valedictorian of his high school class, captain of the track team and an Eagle scout. He was going for his degree in Phys. Ed. on a state scholarship when he suddenly dropped out, moved to the coast and become quite weird for about three years. He was standing on the boardwalk in Venice pondering something cosmic when the utter pointlessness of his existence hit him between the eyes like a runaway freight train. "I think I'll join the Army," he said, and promptly did. Took a basic and AIT at Fort Benning, graduated jump school and desert training unit. Qualified expert all NATO and Warsaw small arms.

"Some of the Joes think that Footloose is out there, but all he's trying to do is find himself. He's the All-American Boy who got lost on the way tp the fair andd he's simply trying to go home any which way he can. Most folks think they know who they are and where they're going...They're the dangerous ones!"

Footloose from 1985. Missing: Rifle, Backpack, LAW Launcher.