Dilworth, Robert L. S., CMSgt

Retired and enjoying life.  I joined the Air Force August 15, 1961.  After 30 years and 17 days I retired on August 31, 1991.  While on 90 days terminal leave I went to work as a security guard and worked for 13 months.  I then went to work for a company (BRENCO) that manufactures wheel bearings for railroad cars, and worked for them two years.  I then started working for the U.S. Postal Service and worked 17 years and three months.  I worked a total of 50 years four months and two weeks .   I started with the Postal Service as a City Mail Carrier and did that for three and a half years.  I then got a job in Personnel in Aug 98 and worked there until it was phased out, and then started working in the training department in Jan 08.  I worked in training 16 of my 30 years in the Air Force so I was happy with that job.   I sold 588 hours of annual leave when I retired completely on 30 Dec 2011.  Selling that leave helped me to finish paying for the hardwood floors Nancy had installed in two hallway.  Wish I could have sold the over 1600 hours of sick leave I had, but during that time the Postal Service would only add half of it to your time in service.  In 2013 the Postal Service started adding all of it to time in service.  House in Virginia was paid for, and I had my yards in good shape.  Unfortunately Nancy's Arthritis caused us to need to move to warmer weather.

I was born in the very, very, very small town of Lamont FL.  I grew up in Tampa, FL and graduated from Middleton High School in 1960.  I then attended Florida A&M University for a year  and joned the Air Force 8/15/61. I had four remote tours; all in the Pacific.  Two were in Okinawa, one in Vietnam, and one in the Philippines.  I had two long tours in Germany.  The first was at Hessisch-Oldendorf AS, Germany Jun 76 to Jun 78.  My last assignment was to the Warrior Preparation Center at Einsiedlerhof AS, Germany for 14 months and my slot was deleted.  I was then moved to Headquarters USAFE at Ramstein Airbase for two years and retired Aug 1991.   Life has been really good to me, and I consider myself to be a very luck person.  I had a wonderful Air Force career.  My second wife (Nancy) and I have been married 42 years.  While in Virginia we lived in a quiet neighborhood in Petersburg, VA which is about six miles from Fort Lee, VA.  We annually went to Hampton, VA to attend the Jazz Festival and most of the time was able to get billetting on Langley AFB.   While vacationing we have also been lucky to get billetting at Travis AFB, CA, Shaw AFB, SC, MacDill AFB, FL, Hickam AFB, HI, and at Eglin AFB, FL.   When I  retired from the Air Force we went to Petersburg, VA to live because we had a house there we were unable to sell when I went PCS to Eglin AFB, FL in Jan 1984.  In April 2016 we moved to Shalimar, FL because of Nancy's Arthritis and the cold weather in Virginia causing her lots of pain.