October 28th, 2007 - The Oklahoman

Military career helps VP draw on experience

By Clytie Bunyan
Business Editor 

It's easy to envision the face of an American soldier as someone's child or parent, but that serviceman or servicewoman also may be someone's boss or an entrepreneur like Stan Chase.

 Chase, vice president of operations for Perimeter Technology Center, for 24 years served as an active duty U.S. Army officer and reservist. His military career has taken him from Japan to Germany and many stops in between. For more than a decade he committed one weekend a month and two weeks a year to the National Guard.

That's in addition to raising a family, growing a business and volunteering in various community efforts, including the Yukon Project Graduation, which raises money to promote an alcohol/drug free environmentfor the graduating seniors, and the American Diabetes Association.

Chase was president of an early Internet company before successors to that company partnered with the data storage operation, Perimeter Technology.

"I think being a business person has helped me to understand that things change and there are no real absolutes. Not everything happens as you want it to,” he said. "This experience has helped me in the military by allowing me to remain disciplined but no too rigid.”

Chase retired from military service this month. Friends say he is far more accurate with an artillery shell at two miles than with a golf club at 135 yards, so maybe now he can take that extra weekend per month to work on his game.

"After the decades of service he's provided to do his part to keep our country safe, he damn well deserves it,” said Mark Towler, who worked with Chase when he was president of Rock Island Group.

And Chase is looking to that too — that and spending more time with his family — but he wants everyone to remember the men and women who have sacrificed much to serve.

"I look back on my military career with a great deal of satisfaction,” he said."I not only had the opportunity to serve our great country, but I also met some of the finest people. people willing to serve! I want to thank them all for the great memories and thank my wife for being so supportive.”

And thank you, Stan.

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