Enjoying retired life in Oregon. I work in my garden. I have twenty fruit trees,blueberrys,raspberry,marionberrys and a large vegetable garden, all fenced in to keep deer out. Our home is on the beautiful Mckenzie River. I enjoy fishing;Trout,Steelhead Trout, and Salmon all on this river. Also, a few miles up river there are lots of rapids for whitewater rafting, (class three) All the water comes from the three Sister mountains in the Cascades. Seventy miles east from here If you like to ski only hour away. Bend OR, is only 110 mile east . I also like Oregon ( DUCK s) football and track, Eugene is Track town USA. Lots of stars came from University of Oregon.The Olympic trials have been held here many times.
We like to travel. You would think I would be tired of traveling after 26 years of AF life. and 17 years of being overseas. We own a RV so in the summer months we go camping with Good Sam friends. Lots of nice places out here in the western US to camp.
.The VA takes care of all my medical needs. I'm 100% service connected disabled. Uncle Surgar is great. What a wonderful country we live in. We have so much to be thankful for. No other country in the world takes care of its Vets like ours. God Bless USA
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I spent my entire career in Air Transportation. Lots of fond memories and events over the years. Have many stories and pictures of some of these places.(check it out)
I really loved serving in the Air Force. I sure do miss it at times. What a great life of 26 yrs active.The majority of those years were overseas ( 17 ).Many of the people I served with I can hardly remember. We seem to enjoy serving all together. Send me a message if you would like to reminisce the old times we shared together, I would love to hear from you...Aim Hi..Bob
Best Friends SSgt Noel,Dennis/ TSgt Portor,Roger /SMSgt Johnson,Clifton/ TSgt Stewart,Glenn /TSgt Folkner,James/ Sgt Jennings,larry /SMS Musolf,Thomas /SSgt John Scott /MSgt Smith,Neal /SMSgt Nieves, Frank
Best Moment Watching movies outdoors,with my family. My Son playing Pop Warner football.Bowling ,Swimming in the three base pools,having a full-time Maid,Yardboy, made my wife fell like Royalty.Brought back lots hand crafted furniture and other things. We loved going to Bagio staying at the special services quarters.Boy was it cold up there in the mountains. My family haited the winding narrow road, with no guard rails, getting to and from there.We had a big 69 Chevy Impala.I left this car behind sold to a local civilian. I bet this vehicle is still being driven over there
Worst Moment The most I haited about Clark, was when new stuff would come in at the BX or Commissary, and some military and their dependants would buy almost everything and sold them to the black market off base. We found out about stateside catalogs (Sears/JC Pennys) came in handy. In 1991 Mt Pinatubo Volcano eruption, the end of Clark. Oh what a good tour My kids really liked it here the base was our little America.
Chain of Command I worked in the Passenger Terminal (Terminal Reservations) during this tour.
Lots of militay retired coming and going Space A travel.
Other Memories I loved Clark.This was a city in itself. The base had everything you would want.Great NCO Club the food was out of this world. The base housing was very good of any AF base overseas.Clark was the largest Air Force Base overseas,over 100 square miles inside the fence.Was ten miles just to the main gate from the base. We lived in Clarkview off base for a year. My kids would often swim at the Clarkton Hotel next door..
I spent my entire career in Air Transportation. Lots of fond memories and events over the years. Have many stories and pictures of some of these places.(check it out)
