[GreenKeys] O.T. 50 years ago: where were you?

[Don Robert House K9TTY]

Hi Ralph,

My six years were up in May of 1968.
Since I had been extended for 2 months due to Vietnam I was lower on the list for recall.
I thought about reenlisting ($2,000. bonus) but I would have had to go to SERE school
before re-assignment. Then the chances of Market Time duty in Vietnam would have been
very high. I also had not even hugged a woman in 4 years and 2 months. So I got out.

I still have my dress blues, undress blues, and two pairs of whites, one with jumper one with 
tropical white shirt.  I put my whites on to put Old Glory at half staff on July 27th each year
in commemoration of the three members of my aircrew who died in a crash in Bermuda as
I stood on the flight line and watched it happen.

Thank you for your service!

Don
former AX2 (AC) USN 1962-1968
3rd generation US Navy

P.S. I kept my SECRET clearance with Illinois Bell until 1983 when I was debriefed and
told I could not visit certain countries for 10 years.  I needed the clearance to install and
maintain the POTUS Teletype machines (Nixon changed that to PRESUS) later designed
access circuits for the WHCA for Jimmy Carter.

DESIGNER DR HOUSE


On 21 Dec 2014, at 1:10 PM, Ralph Irish wrote:

> When the news first hit about the Russians starting to move missiles to Cuba, and
> setting up missile bases there, I was less than two years out of the Navy.  I was
> in a 'critical MOS' (Radioman) and had a Crypto security clearance.  I was wondering
> if I would be recalled.
> 
> I was married by then, but with no children.  My wife was employed and employable
> as a school teacher, so I could have been recalled and at no great inconvenience.
> 
> Lots of annoyance, but not a lot of inconvenience.  I still had all of my clothing
> issue and probably 95% of it would have still fit me.  I anxiously watched the
> mailbox for weeks and months!
> 
> Once things cooled down, we were able to relax.  My job at Ford would have been kept
> available I was told.  No break in seniority, etc.
> 
> About a year earlier, an event took place just weeks after I met my 'wife to be' was
> the Berlin Wall.  At that time I had only been out of the Navy for a few months and
> thoughts of a recall were much higher then.  Not a student, not married, etc.
> 'Ripe for picking' as the old saying goes.  I got past that one and was not concerned
> about a recall.  For at least a year!
> 
> My six year obligation did not end until June of 1963.  At that time, I could dispose
> of all of the Navy clothing and if recalled, would get all new clothing.  Never happened!
> 
> Still have a set of Dress Blues, though.  
> 
> 
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