Shortly after my arrival I re-enlisted for the last time. The officer that administered the oath was a Naval officer. He was assigned to the CE Squadron through a joint service agreement. I was thrilled to have him in my organization and a part of my chain of command. A super superior!
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Throughout my career I had provided humanitarian assistance to folks around the globe. Never did I get involved with helping my fellow Americans until this assignment. It happened following the devastation of Hurricane Eloise as it passed through the Florida Panhandle. Three days after the storm my commander received a request through the chain of command to assist the folks in Paxton, Florida. They needed generator support. We responded with a 30KW and a 10KW generator. Upon our arrival the mayor instructed us where the help was needed. We wired the 30KW into a chicken farm with 15000 bitties and for the next three days we visited various farms and charged their freezers for one hour.
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I assumed that we all know what a MESS from a garden is.....Wrong. Living up north and in a city all of his life, an airman in the shop had planted a garden. He planted all of the southern delicacies. I ask him if he had a MESS of greens yet and he responded," the whole garden was a MESS". We all know what assume is when broken down.
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A SPECIAL STORY: Thirty years has passed since my first cousin EUGENE O'NEIL was a crew member of the Navy Cruiser USS Indianapolis. On July 30, 1945, she was sunk by a Japanese submarine. Only three hundred crew members survived . Eugene was among the nine hundred crew members that went down with the ship. Ironically, two weeks before it was lost it made a stop at Tinian Island. She delivered the components of the first atom bomb known as Little Boy. In early August the B29 Enola Gay dropped it over Hiroshima, Japan. Within ten days the Japanese surrendered and WWII ended. .
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