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Dates... Aug 90 - May 91 |
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I was in charge of
the Data Processing section where we had to input a LOT of data to keep
our inventory database up to date.
Also was the 'company gunny' for most of the time for muster and the first few weeks we spent in Saudi for Desert Storm. Come to think of it, I was the company gunny for most of our time there... CO in Saudi was LT. Wade Wessels for awhile. Replaced by the CO of MedLog East (can't remember his name right now). I wound up driving him all over Saudi and lower Iraq. I managed to be on the front lines for our assault. (That's what I'd been trained for!) The CO back in the world was sending us empty surgical packs just so he could say they really were sending out our gear. It was like 120 degrees every day when we first got to Saudi. I lost 40 pounds my first month there from sweating! Had a Scud missile blow up over our warehouse in Al Jubail. When the temp finally dropped it stayed COLD for 4 months! Using the Shower Tent was a real bitch then! We came out of Saudi ok though. While there I drove 5-ton's, HumVee's, a 60 passenger bus and a 8 wheel Czechoslovakian (?) tank hauler that had 5 ton's of cement in the back of it. (For traction in the sand.) Had a real nice retirement ceremony about a month after we got back. Had to use up my leave I had on the books. Group was so mad I didn't have all the HM's on base attend in whites that they didn't even send a photographer. So I have two very blurry pictures taken by Kathy's folks. But, except for the thrice weekly migraines I came out of 20 years of service ok! |
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My SCUD Detector. |
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