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as a child i been to San Diego zoo the biggest in the world,Yellowstone national state park,Guam,wake island,Hawaii,and lived in the Philippines for 2 years.plus lived in Texas,California,Oregon and then Washington state.
I joined the army national guards when i was a junior in high school and was send to fort Dix,new jersey that summer.then that winter of 79-80 we had 8 feet of snow dumped on us and in the spring mt.st Helen's blew her top.graduated from Stevenson high school,Stevenson Washington and then that summer i went to fort Jackson,south Carolina for food specialist course.
by may of 1981 i joined the u.s army and was send to fort bliss,Texas for air defense artillery school which i went from 94b to 16r. then that summer i was send to spangdahlem AFB west Germany and stayed there until December 1985.I got to toured all over Europe and went to other schools and it was fun and the training was intense and i loved my job and the time in Europe.i been to Austria,Denmark,Luxembourg,Belgium,France,and all over Germany. then i was send to fort Polk,Louisiana as my next duty station. i was there for a year then i was send camp hovey,south Korea.
I got to go fishing on the yellow sea got to go to japan,Okinawa,Guam,wake island and even Alaska and of course Hawaii again.i ended up back at fort polk,louisiana after a year in Korea.i was at fort Polk for a year than i went to fort Benjamin Harrison,Indiana for recruiting school. (00R)
THEN I was station at port Arthur,Texas recruiting station outside of Beaumont Texas.our headquarters was at Houston,Texas.after 6 months there i ended up at fort hood,Texas where i spend 6 months at the hospital until my medical retirement took effect and i could be well enough to go home.
I went back to leesville,Louisiana and made my home there until 1992 then i moved to Alexandria,Louisiana until 1995 where i moved to biloxi,Mississippi and by 2002 i made my permanent home in d'iberville,Mississippi where i had a house built for myself and my family.
currently my daughter and my grandson lives with me and he is fun and a big handful at times.but i love him to death.
Since i have been here i have still travelled quite a bit-i go over to Alabama quite a bit.i use to go new Orleans and baton rouge and lafayette when i first got here but i changed direction to north and to the east more.
been to the grand canyon and the petrified forest,las Vegas where my sister lives,went to visit a friend up at Nebraska,and to Florida several times and north to Ohio to visit another friend.went to myrtle beach south Carolina last year.
so i still planning on another trip just don't know where yet.so i do enjoy my life despite everything else going on.as long as i am alive i will live.
