Best Friends Bob Mayberry, Dan Kettleson, Lou Abahazy, Roy Dutton, Bill Short, Lyle Frisbie, Don Critchfield, Jim Ashton
Best Moment Getting the telegram from my wife's sister the night my daughter Rhonda was born and that all was well.
Worst Moment After celebrating Octoberfest in Trier, my friend went to sleep at the wheel, crashed into a tree. I was very su woke up with tree branches in my face. Luckily, neither of us were hurt bad but my face had several cuts and I was missing a grinder. The Flight Surgeon and the Dentist did a tolerable job of making repairs. I was again up and at 'em in a weeks time.
Other Memories The two TDY's to Tripoli and the road convoys that motored up the winding roads to Garian, Libya where we set up the Missile Guidance Site at the end of the chain. On our first trip up a smart Arab used his camel to plow up the ground all around the site. After all the birds were fired off we began to break down the site and pack up. He returned with the politzi and pointed out places where we had dumped and burned trash or poured out carbolic acid. There has been no word as to how much he collected in property damages.
After I returned from Libya, I received my first supervisory assignment to a Radio Relay site on a British Army Base at Delmenhorst, Germany one day I was outside the A3A Van and I noticed a black limosine pull to the border fence and stop. Four men got out, studied the site through binoculars took pictures and left. I have my suspicions of this event but I believe I have already reprted this in "My Reflections on My Air Force Service."
