Retired effective 1 Feb 2014. Plan to travel,fish,work around the house and visit my grand kids. 2017 still fish and work in my yard . Had to stop travelling on our trike and just sold it . Haven't seen my grand kids in Colorado for three years . Bad feet and knees on many meds , old age sucks !
August 2019 I had a stroke and lost the use of my whole right side and speech . I have come back to getting around without a cane and can talk fairly good . I can drive and do most things only slowly . I am still getting better and feel half normal .
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Retired from Oklahoma Teachers Retirement system 1 Feb 2014. Drawing Social Security,Retired from Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company in 2006 and retired from the Army in 1988. My hobbies are my yard now getting my main attention. Really enjoy going to bed and getting up whenever I feel like ! I still do some bass fishing once in awhile . Still do a few local Bass Tournaments .
Best Friends Many great men in the Blue platoon . Ssg Burton , Sgt Daniel , Sp Walters and most of the platoon . We had a great group of pilots with us and we all got along good . Our CO was a Major and a good guy with a great 1SG the Troop ran smoothly .
Best Moment The moment I got back into the Infantry and when I got promoted to Ssg . I had gone into photograpy as a E-5 and could not make E-6 as it was way over strenght . I got fed up and returned to 11 B where I was happy and made E-6 in no time . I should never have changed MOS although I did enjoy my time in photograpy .
Worst Moment The jerk of a SSG that was PSG of the Blue Platoon told me if I showed I was proficent for about a year he would see I get boarded. Ass Hole and I never got along with him much. I got boarded and promoted shortly and he did not like it. Showed up drunk and wanting to fight at my promotion party in front of our Sqdn CO and CSM, he left the unit shortly after that. I became acting PSG at times after that.
Other Memories Got sick and tired of not getting promoted as a 84G because it was way over strenght after Vietnam. Went back to 11B and had enough points to get E-6 before any board points added in. The 1SG saw my points as I signed in and wanted to know why wasn't I a SSG. I explained to him that since I changed MOS I needed to be boarded again. He said right away for sure.
