WOW. Max
--- In diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com, "williamc" <wmcowart@...> wrote:
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> --- In diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com, "Nate" <vwnate1@> wrote:
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> > Bill ;
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> > 1st ; thank you for your Service .
> ((((((((((((( Actualy, I was one of those rare people who had a very enjoyable ; almost career. Two years as a deck ape,a seamen at the bottom of the ladder in deck divission, in the amphibious Navy, USS colonial LSD 18 . Our most notable accomplishment, hauling a dreadge just north of Siagon, only to hav it blown up a couple weeks later. but we hauled troops, equipement, and landing craft.
> Then I got into aivation, VAQ 130 , EKA 3Bs, called a shywarrior, or whale. I became a jet mechanic; but was a plane captian, both ground and air crew. The guy who pre flights, fuels, that sort of stuff. I thought I had died and gone to heaven. After that I went to A 7 Carsars, then got my first shore duty at NAS North Island, after getting married.
> Getting married, and shore duty was a desaster for my career. I had made three WestPacs to the waters of Viet Nam, and one Med cruise. All in combat squardons, both flying and maintance. People on shore duty had a lax, all out for themselves attitude. I was use to do it ight, do it now, as a team, or your pilot and crew pays the price. I just suddenly did not fit in, I only had 7 years left to retire, and I do regree loosing the montary part, but not the new breed of people.
> I was lucky in the military also to receive some specialized training, that has made a lot of difference in life. When the Navy bought the S3A still flying today, I was sent to General Electric and Locheed both for training on maintance on it. I picked up a lot going to them, that I normaly would not have gotten in a military techinology type school.
> The greatest thing I picked up, at General Electric, in West Lynn, Ma. was the dawning and ability to reverse engeer. That has proven to be a gold mine, in allowing me to do things, as I have no real education, school wise, actualy was a H/S drop out. Aftr being in alternative building, fuels, and a ton of other alternative projects throught the years, if there is one trait I see in those that actualy do it, it isthe ability to reverse engeer. And if one has some formal education to go with that, they are usually very sucesiful, my opinion.
> Tom is working on getting me to change this as we often do my Physical Therapy in junkyards > -Nate
> ((((((((((((((((( Junk yars are the greatest place. One spring day, 20 plus years ago, I needed something for a datsun. Sunday after noon the wife and I decided we needed to go out, get away from the kids . It was in Sacramento, and on the way we stopped in aUZ pull it junk yard for a quick look. I do not remember if I got the part or not. What I do remember is, a romanic afternoon in the junk yard. There we where a forty something couple, holding hands, walking arround in the junk yard. We would look at something like a van, that had been converted for a week end family outting, or an older car that bought back memories of bot ourselves and others. All alnog holding hands and talking and acting like two teenagers out on a date. We never went out to eat that day, but throught out the years there have been times we look back on that day, chuckle, that a forties something couple could consider a stroll throught a junk yard a romanic afternoon.
> Junk yards and an old hardware store, two of the greast places on earth to visit, relax, and get ideas. Bill C
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