sentences:  Tupa was born in Harbor Beach, Michigan in 1966.He comes from a long line of United States Coast Guardsmen (brother, father, uncle, grandfather, great grandfather, great uncles) and his father’s service gave him the opportunity to live in many different states, including Michigan, Ohio, Mississippi and military bases in New York and Texas.Opting not to enlist in the Coast Guard, Ron was instead the first of the Tupas to go on to college.