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After retiring in Oct. 1988 I took advantage of the GI Bill and went back to school full time to finish up my degree. Graduated from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington with a BS in Business Management. Worked for Exide Electronics for 10 years as a Quality Assurance Inspector until they shipped the factory to Mexico. Thanks NAFTA! Worked for a short time for Chloride Electronics as a Lab Technician.(QA & Design/Testing) After that I went to Corning as a Shift Tech. Maintained, Repaired and Modified equipment that produced Optical Fiber. Decided to go to work for myself so I got my Real Estate Brokers license. That was fun and profitable until the bottom fell out. Now I am enjoying my retirement and doing all those little things I didn't have time for before. Fishing, scouring the beach with a metal detector, puttering around the house, and sitting in front of this %#&* computer.
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Married to the same wonderful woman for 44 years, four kids, two boys and two girls. Livining in Wilmington, NC. close to the beach where I can persue my favorite pastimes, fishing and bikini watching. My home town of Charleston, SC is a few hours down the road and Myrtle Beach is only an hour away.
AFSC/MOS 30352-Aircraft Control and Warning Radar Repairman
Base, Station or City
Charleston AFS
State/Country
Maine
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765th Radar Squadron Details
Squadron Mission
The mission of the 765th Radar Squadron (SAGE) was to provide search, height, and gap filler radar data to the semi-automatic ground environment (SAGE) system in the Bangor Air Defense Sector, and to provide ground-to-air communications and aircraft control as a back-up interceptor control (BUIC) system to provide a substitute for SAGE in air defense.
The 765th Radar Squadron was also responsible for maintaining two Gap Filler Radars. One at Sedgwick, ME. Which was an AN/FPS-14. The second, an AN/FPS-18A, was located in Topsfield, ME.
The 14th MWS, headquartered at MacDill AFB, FL (originally under the 14th Aerospace Force headquartered at Ent AFB, CO), at one time operated radars at eight (8) different, geographically-separated locations. Beginning in 1966/1967, seven of the sites operated the AN/FSS-7 ("Fuzzy-7") missile-warning radar, modified from the AN/FPS-26 height-finder radar made by Avco. The radars, in addition to their primary mission of detecting and tracking intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM's) and sea-launched ballistic missiles (SLBM's), all had a secondary mission of tracking satellites that passed overhead.
Source: Online Air Defense Radar Museum: www.radomes.org/museum/
Best Friends Tim Hess, Mike Hogan, Julius Sills, JC Clay, Bob Croft, Bill Gove (civ.FSS-7) Wade Dyer,Tom Cornine(Civ.Tech.Rep.)
Best Moment Got married between leaving Keesler and going to Maine.Got to be the best decision of my mis-spent youth.
Passing the 5 level test on the first try.
Worst Moment Losing our first born son shortly after his birth.
Chain of Command FPS-27 Tower NCOIC = Msgt Barry Haddock Supervisor = Tsgt Charles Jeffries Crew Chief = Sgt (Butch) Buchenski
Other Memories Mike Hogan, Julias Sills and I were originally assigned to Topsham AFS in Brunswick Maine. Being a direction center they were not too keen on having a bunch of 3 levels running around so we were re-assigned to Charleston AFS. Having beeen born and raised in Charleston SC I thought I was headed home. Then they told us to drive North until we saw the big white golf balls. That was our new home.Luck assigned us to the AN/FPS-27 which was a very interesting system to cut your teeth on.On my shift breaks we enjoyed driving to Bar Harbor for a lobster dinner and exploring the coastal area.
