Prior to enlisting into the military I was a stocker, checker, produce, bagger & Meat Cutter for a small store in Houston Texas.  During my time as a meat cutter my trigger finger was caught in the blade of the meat grinder.  It was just one of those quick things that shouldn't have happened but did.So when I showed up to the recruiters (1967-1968) down town they asked me about my finger.  I told them what happened and took off the splint  to show the 10 stitches through the end of my finger.  They gasped and said see you in 6 months. I also had a cyst (1968) to have taken care of and that was another 6 months.At the end of the second 6 months I went back and they informed me what 1A fit for duty, I said what does that mean!  (Hey I Was Not Worldly Then) My Uncle and I went downtown to speak with a recruiter and they sent me off for Testing.  Sometimes they just don't tell you everything.  After completion of the Tests no one provided the "What Next" or "Where Do I Go Now" information.  So I found my uncle and we went home.  About 30 minutes after we got home who do you think called "Yep" the recruiter?  He asked why I had left, I told him no one told me to stick around!  He then said that he would like to talk to me as I had some pretty good scores.  So I nabbed my uncle again and off we went. Upon arrival the recruiter indicated that he had something which was highly sensitive and all those other buzz words.  So you bet I signed the dotted lines for a 4 years enlistment.  Here are my assignments over my 21 years of service.

May 1969                                                        Ft. Leonard Wood MO, Basic Training

1969  Ft. Devens, Mass.                              Training company for '05' series Basic Morse Code

                                                                          Training for 05D which is High Frequency Direction Finding

1970  Two Rrock Ranch,                              Petaluma California  Advance Training on Viet Cong code.

1970-1971   8th RRFS                                  Republic of Viet Nam.

1971-1972   FS Korea                                   Located at Camp Humphrey's Korea.

1972-1972   Discharged                              Year drops became availabe and I took it !!!

1972-1972   Re-enlisted                              Didn't hate it as much as I thought, I was also bored to tears-----

1972-1975   Field Station Beriln                 The Berlin Wall was still up while I was their..

1975-1977   376th C&P Co.                         Duty with the National Security Agency (NSA).

1977-1979   Field Station Korea                 Again Assigned to Camp Humphreys.

1979-1983  Torii Station, Okinawa         Field Station

1983-1983   CY-155 Class                     This was a 6 month course in Cryptologic Skills

1983-1986   Duty at NSA                     After compleation of course CY-155 spent time in A Group.

1983-1986   302nd MI BN                    Support to the V Corps staff.

Aug 1990     Retired                            Enough Said!!!

1993-2004   Returned to US                 Worked for Texas Tech University for 13 Years.

2004- Present                                     Disabled Vet