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| Sept. 1972 |
Kelly AFB was a large depot level maintenance base with over sixteen thousand civilian employees. I was the NCOIC of Power Production and Barrier Maint. I was the only military of the six employees in the shop.
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One of the employees had been a civil service hire for over thirty years. He was at Pearl Harbor on Sunday, December 7th, 1941. I especially enjoyed reminiscing with him about those days .In addition, he was an exceptional worker. He always called me ONEY (from the Johnny Cash song). He owned a small two hundred acre place south of San Antonio. It was on an old Spanish trail. One morning he came to work and told me that treasure hunters were sneaking onto his property and digging for treasure. I ask him if he was going to put a stop to it. He said he'll wait until the hole was big enough for a new stock tank. Texas ingenuity.
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A small walk through personnel gate opened during the lunch hour. On the outside was a Mom and Pop Sandwich trailer. Great sandwiches were served to many of the base employees. Mom and Pop wintered in Florida.
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I knew when I came here it would not be a long assignment. Coming from a long tour in Europe made me a prime candidate for a remote. It came. I'm off to Fort Yukon AFS, Alaska. Seven miles above the Arctic Circle.
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