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 Moment Making E-7 the day we had a change of company commanders, the new CO wanted to know why my stripes were pinned on my greens.
Worst Moment While attached at FT Sill during Christmas 1979 getting a letter from our XO telling me that I was DFR as they had orders saying I had been sent back to them. No one told me or had given me copies of the orders. Freaked me out.
Chain of Command The first CO a Cpt Winchell used to say, Fuck,Stab,Jackoff all the time over things. That was different. 1SG Vance calling everyone "Sug or Sugar" he was different too. The next 1SG was Saledge and he fell asleep a lot only he would pull a bottle out to share a drink with us PSG's often.
Other Memories Haviiiing to do a written counseling each month on the E-4's and E-5's that I did not recommend for advancement. What a pain. Got fed up one month and put them all in, what a mess, the CO had a problem with that. Oh, the time the CO and I were drinking and I told him how There were times I wanted to hit him. He was a pretty good CO really.
