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Current Service Status
USAF Retired
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Current/Last Rank
Captain
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Current/Last Primary AFSC/MOS
3031-Communications Officer
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Current/Last AFSC Group
Communications Systems
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Primary Unit
1975-1976, 3031, 1817th Reserve Advisor Squadron
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Previously Held AFSC/MOS
30450B-Radio Relay Equipment Repairman
30450-Radio Relay Equipment Repairman
30470-Radio Relay Equipment Maintenance Technician
3031-Communications Maintenance Officer
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Service Years
1961 - 1982
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What are you doing now: See bio at http://wgs.cc
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Other Comments: Am currently hosting a reunion for the 416th Bomb Group (WWII) in Branson, Missouri. Am working on several video and book projects.
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From Month/Year
April / 1965 |
To Month/Year
December / 1965
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Last Updated: Mar 16, 2020
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Memories My assignment to the Dominican Republic was with the Inter-American Peace Force, providing communications support for the U.S. Army with Tropospheric Scatter point to point transmissions. I had the misfortune during this short tour with Operation Power Pack to contract a case of Malaria, for which I was treated in an Army field hospital at San Isidro Air Base in Santo Domingo. It was actually just a big tent with no cooling in the middle of the Caribbean. Super hot. Not exactly "Combat", but not an island vacation either. I spent about ten days in the hospital there and then returned to duty, where we did have air conditioning since the electronic equipment needed to be cooled. One memory that I have is of the beach recreation area which was enclosed with barbed wire and guarded by machine gun posts at each corner. Everybody looked forward to that occasional visit to the most relaxing spot on the island. I was only shot at one time during this tour. We were in a jeep sent to the center of town on a mail run. We turned a corner and found ourselves in the middle of a cross fire. Our exit was expedited and we found another route to the mail room. All-in-all, it was a pretty safe environment.
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