Previously Held NEC AT-8265-Flight Communications Operator
ATR-0000-Aviation Electronics Technician Radar and Radar Navigation Equipment
8319-P-3 System Organization Maintenance Technician
AT-8319-P-3 System Organizational Maintenance Tech
Service Years
1959 - 1976
Other Languages
German
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Additional Information
What are you doing now:
Retired! Retired in 2003 from State of Alaska where I worked first as a Weigh Station Operator for the Dept. of Commerce, then as a Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Officer ( truck cop, with an Alaska State Trooper commission) for the Dept. of Transportation on the Kenai Peninsula, where my wife and I still live. We spend Summer fishing and enjoying Alaska and in Winter we often travel to warmer latitudes in our motorhome to spend time in Arizona or Mexico away from the snow and ice.
Other Memories Like most other recruits I learned most of what I was expected to learn. But, in the month of July in San Diego, where the temps were always in the 70s and 80s, I got pneumonia and was admitted to the hospital. That meant I had to be set back two weeks and I graduated from Boot Camp two weeks later than my original shipmates. There were two others in Boot Camp who were in other units but who were from my hometown. Later one of them (Ben McCarthy Greenan) married one of my sisters, and the other (Gary Hildebrand) married another of my sisters.
