Fully retired .Working around the house doing HONEY DO's.Spending more time with kids and grandkids.Trying to locate old friends from the military and school.Learning how to operate this computer.Taking trips back to Crete Greece to visit the wife's family members there..Above all haveing a good time in my old age.
PLAYING WITH SKYPE. My SKYPE name is garymac000
OCT 17 2012:
Just returned from a 5 week stay with the wife's family on the Greek island of Crete Greece.Took many photos and a couple videos.Much is on my Facebook page .LONG flying trip but well worth it.Love the beaches.Visited the closed USAFSS base there and cried again.What a mess.Was the best little base in the USAF..Working on my Photo History web site on that closed Intelligence base www.papoumac.shutterfly.com
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Joined the Marine Corps reserve in 1956.Went full time in 1957 until 1960.Joined the USAF in 1960.Stationed at Camp Pendelton Ca,Mare Island CA,MC CHORD AFB Wa,Crete Greece (2 tours USAFSS),Viet-Nam(x2),IRAN(MAAG),Mt.Home AFB ID,Tokyo Japan(AFRTS),Travis AFB.DUTIES: Armorer,PMI,Supply,Military advisor..Spent 16 years out of my 23 overseas.Saw much of the world on leave, and TDY as well as duty stations.Member of a small group of USAFSS people that tested and started the 1st EC47 unit in Nam.Advisory duty in Isfahan Iran was with the Navy F-14 Tomcat.The team was both Navy and USAF.
Retired from the military in 1979.Worked for World Airways in Oakland CA for a while..Odd jobs then went into law enforcement in 1981.Worked with Drug ID,County Gangs Task Force,Auto crashes,WMD instructor school,and trained police Aides in fire arms.Retired fufully in 2005....Member of small and big bore base shooting teams in the Marines and Air Force..Spent most of my young life in Yakima Washington.
My 1st trip to Viet-Nam was mainly due to my getting engaged to a Greek nurse from Crete in 1965.I had to leave Crete and while in TX I worked hard to get back.No such luck.Then the General (KLOCKO) (sp). told me if I volenteried to go to Nam and help test the EC47 program that all that went can go to what ever USAFSS base they wish.So off I went .True to his word I went back to Crete upon my return to TX.I still don't let the wife forget that I went to WAR so we could be married.Don't work very good anymore.LOL.
The SAGE system was a network linking Air Force (and later FAA) General Surveillance Radar stations into a centralized center for Air Defense, intended to provide early warning and response for a Soviet nuclear attack. The Ground Air Transmitting Receiving (GATR) Site (R-18) for communications was located at approximately 1.1 miles souh-southwest from the SAGE building. Normally the GATR site was connected by a pair of buried telephone cables, with a backup connection of dual telephone cables overhead.
DC-18 was initially under the San Francisco Air Defense Sector (SFADS), established on 15 February 1959. DC-18 and the SFADS was inactivated on 1 August 1963 as part of an ADC consolidation and reorganization, with its assigned units assigned to other ADC Sectors. The GATR was reassigned to Mill Valley AFS (Z-38) as an annex designated OL-A, 666th Radar Squadron. Today the large SAGE building is now building 2145, housing the 9th Reconnaissance Technical Squadron; the GATR was inactivated in 1980 and the building is now part of a Skeet-shooting range.
