Prior to campaigning in 2003 for state representative, Rep. Barney Fisher, R-Richards, fulfilled an extensive career in the Marine Corps - much of it seated in the cockpit of fighter planes.
A 1965 graduate of Nevada High School, Fisher attended the University of Missouri and received a degree in education in 1969.
Believing he would be drafted once out of college, Fisher took the job as an athletic director and head basketball coach at Wellsville, and put the possibility of a military career "on the back burner."
He later learned the draft board had issued him a high lottery number decreasing his likelihood of being drafted, however, an encounter with a Marine recruiter shifted the direction of his career outlook.