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get when you have literally run from your past. His was brought up in southern Indiana—”a redneck, whitetrash community," he says. He graduated from high school as a junior “to escape from poverty. The marines (US. Marine Corps) were my ticket.” He was 17 when he joined for a four-year tour and was consistently the youngest one of his peers to advance in rank. He was a sergeant at 20, and he was given the honorific of Marine Corps embassy duty.
Serving in Prague, he met his future wife, Gunilla, who was a Swedish foreign service officer. He convinced her to marry him. He had prospects, and Gunilla says his energy was not hard to see.
On his discharge from the service, the couple moved to Vienna, where Combs earned a speedy bachelors’ degree from the American Webster College’s satellite campus in Austria. The couple had two children, Catherine, and Lisa, who is now 11, and a student CM. Bradley Elementary School in Warrenton.
Combs started his climb, which was more like an advance on a beachhead.
For most normal people, Combs can be exhausting to be around; he even exhausts himself seemingly without knowing it. As a recent visitor was leaving his back patio, he pointed to a tabby cat named Tiger (one of the family’s 10 cats) lazily stretched out in the shade of a wooden outdoor table. Combs was outraged.
“Look at that! You are better off being an animal here than a person.”
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