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 Moment This was my second time stationed here. Lots of hard work, With shipments of thousands of tons of cargo processed and shipped daily to South East Asia. I worked in the Electronic Accounting Machine room. I process and expedited the submission of statistical data to Hq MAC. I remember the millions of tons daily back log cargo in the port.(awaiting transport) It cosisted of 5 trays of EAM cards, which had to be sorted and processed into tabulated consolidated EAM cards.This process took me several hours to complete. There was a TIME LINE THIS HAD TO COMPLETED (0200 zulu). I worked the swing shift during this tour.
My daughter was born here at David Grant Hospital just two months before being shipped to Viet-nam
Worst Moment Having to leave my baby and family to go to Viet-nam in October of 1967. It was so hard on my English wife to deal with three kids and stuff associated by running a household.Good thing for the base Family services and the English wives club, they helped her a lot.
Chain of Command MSgt George Paige- NCOIC Machine room Mr Robert Hutton,GS-10,DAFC Clayton Johnson,Col- CMDR
Other Memories The 60th Aerial Port, was one of busiest Aerial Ports in the world during this time frame (Deeds Not Words) squadron moto was created along with a new unit patch. We recieved the President Outstanding Unit award and the Air Force Outstanding Unit during this assignment.I also received my first medal, the Air Force Commendation during this assignment
My off duty hours were pretty busy, having my family living in Vacaville, play golf and bowling when I could.This was a very busy time of my life here.
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)
