Getting too old !
I forgot to take notice that I retired from the military 35 years ago, 1st of July 1975 … What a ride this has been all these years. Hopefully there will be a few more good years left for me. May your story be good too.
Cheers, TOF in Lost Wages.
It sounds like you have out lived the odds, which is good. Hope for you to have many more. Its almost a better day than your birthday, isn’t it?
Thanks for your service!!! You probably cheated the grim reaper more than once during and since. So it’s all free time from here on.
Congratulations Darryl. I did it 21 years ago May 1989. Pharmacy Officer US Army and PHS Officer. 23 years total.
Army never sent me to Europe or Ft. Lewis WA the two places I really wanted to go. Noooo I had to go to RVN 67/68 and Hawaii 69/71.
Noel
Noel I was stationed in many uninteresting places throught my military venture like Okinawa 63-64 Korea 67-68 and Nam 71-72.
Other un-noteable sites like Yuma Az and Tooele Utah were I unloaded an arm load of stripes for a paycheck as long as I live. I fooled them like 35 years. Now I am now on the other end of the foolery as the monthly check doesn’t buy much anymore.
Would I do it all over again? You bet as it was a good ride that I’ll never forget. Your story?
WOO WOO All aboard…
TOF in Lost Wages
Darryl,
Went in in 66. They said I had to do 3 since they just made me a looootennant. Went to nam in 67. First Pharmacy Officer in RVN. Came home in 68 and talked to all my classmates who had not gone into the service. Their lives were misery to say the least. Getting shot at and robbed by all the druggies. Went back home and told my folks “see ya in 20 years.” The rest is history. Was going back to nam in 71 when they cannceled my project. Went to the five sided puzzel palace then to school for a MS then to Ft. Eustis, then to Riley and landed back on the East coast in 86. A drawdown in 89 caught me cause my pickett fence had a dinged slat in it so they said retire. You are right on about the paycheck for life not buying much any more. Do it again? In a heartbeat. Would I do some things differently. Maybe but still love giving Colonels a good case of heartburn.
Noel