Bill, USAF Ret MSgt 1964-1984 20 years, 3 months, 14 days of a mostly good experience. AFSC 99125, 99104 "Special Electronics Tech" Same organisation my full career. We monitored the Nuclear Weapons Test Ban treaty. Interesting job.
Basic at Lackland - got my training flight quarantined with measles!
Tech school Lowry AFB, Denver
Thailand for a year.
Back to Lowry for 3 years as maintenaance tech at our tech school. Married a USO hostess, she died on me 52 years later.
3 years at RAAF Amberly, Brisbane Australia. Good duty, GOOD beer, and near local relatives, too.
The rest of my time was at McClellan AFB, Sacramento CA, except for the year (was supposed to be 2 years) in Tehran. The
Shah left, and so did we. Evac'ed back to Sacramento, which was our maintenance and engineering support squadron location.
Retired because my son was turning 16, I was on the short list to get sent unaccompanied, and I figured it was time to be
home.
If I had it to do over again, given the same time frame, I would. Just should have held on to a couple guns that I let slip through my fingers.
