I started basic on 3/21 so we might have been at Lackland at the same time. While in basic I had an impacted tooth removed and became infected, which made the misery of basic that much worse. Not your fault Scud!
A little side note to your tour of duty - one day at our clinic in Torrejon, Spain we had a retired Army officer, Colonel Glover Johns, come in. He described the Berlin standoff they had with the Communists; I believe it was around 1960. He said he was in the lead tank, his muzzle pointed at the lead Soviet tank. He told us he had one hand holding his earpiece up to his left ear; the Pentagon was on the direct line. His right hand was on the trigger, he indicated he was just waiting for instructions on whether to fire that first shot or not.....fortunately it didn't happen. It was very compelling to listen to him describe the events of the time. He also described to us his involvement with the movie Patton, (filmed in Spain) where he was the chief technical advisor for all tank activity in the film. He was one very fascinating, and yet very humble, person.
During my cruises to southeast asia we parked there six times for about a week each time. It was awful, we hated every minute of it.
You went through Sub school while I was there in the Training division. I worked on the top of the hill, FBM attack trainers (they had torpedoes too).
Yup went through sub school in early '73.
We visited Hawaii in July. It still sucks, a really terrible place to vacation. It was our 6th trip and it just keeps getting worse.During my cruises to southeast asia we parked there six times for about a week each time. It was awful, we hated every minute of it.
