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 MR. Linke/ SSgt Cooper/SSgt Pugh/ Sgt Mckibbon/ SSgt Bonner/ MSGT Whitehouse/MSgt Davidson/ Army SSgt Randy Grose( Army INTEL) Frau Ava Groke (the Det interpreter) The Det Driver Heer Linka. (what a man) I'm sorry to hear of his passing. He was loved by all who knew him.
Best Moment Lots of hard work, getting the transportation in shape. Prior to my arrival, transportation had two unsat EVALS from USAFE.The next time they came received a sat, which pleased Maj Connie LLyod (maint/log OIC I was made chief of all Transportation. Veh Maint.Veh OPPS. Air Freight. Passenger Service. Surface freight. Had lots to learn and tons of paper work. I had all good people working for me. Moved tons of cargo and processed thousands of personal on three C-130's weekly to other Detachments and return to RAF Bentwaters. The days we had flights, there was always US Army personal who would show up for any space avalible seats to England and on to the(states) from RAF Mildenhall
Worst Moment Not receiving a medal for all the hard work I had performed and my retirement for the 26 years I spent serving our nation.