Thule?? Not a place that your average uninitiated soul would be aware of. I know it from laying over there on my way to CFS Alert, Nunavut (I'm in the Canadian Army).
That has me thinking he may actually have done time in the Air Force.
Agreed, but -- if he lived near a base, he may have picked up enough facts & jargon to support his story?
If this man is from the area of little Paul Harrod's grave, is Wright-Patterson is fairly close?
I think it's more likely that he
tried to join the Air Force but was unsuccessful -- couldn't pass the physical, couldn't maintain a standard, just didn't work out?
AWOL?
Maybe he told his original family -- with his original name -- that he was going overseas on an important mission so they didn't report him missing? IF he was AWOL,
this family may be so embarrassed that they wrote him off/disowned/are estranged?
Or, he's been reported missing, all right, under the name his family of origin knows. But -- this police report &/or Missing poster with additional photos may not have been flung into CyberSpace for us or entered into the usually available sites that weren't available in this time frame.
IIRC he did report an ex-wife in Kansas or Missouri. A few pages back & came up with a list of Air Force bases in those 2 states. Likely, he was using some other name at that point, since his "Paul R. Harrod" SSN was issued in 1987.
Is there a timeline with locations for this guy?
1987 -- ??? -- address reported on SSN application
199?-- Indiana, meets future wife working at group home, Indiana
199? -- future wife changes job to gas station/convenience store between Sheridan & Indy
199? -- changes job to St. Vincent's Hospital, Indianapolis
1991 -- adds stepson to insurance
Thanksgiving, 1991 -- wedding, a home in Sheridan, IN
27 Nov 1992 -- Sheridan, Indiana, leaves, apparently driving Geo Metro
199? - court filing for repossession of the Geo Metro, Indiana
1994 - Geo Metro shows up at auction, Colorado
Sorry for the long post. Please clean up the timeline events. We need more dots to connect to figure this guy out....
JMHO YMMV