US Navy Reserve, 1980-86
Antisubmarine Warfare Operator (E-5)
Aircrewman aboard P-3 Orions based in Jacksonville, FL and New Orleans
Tracked-Soviet-submarines-in-the-Atlantic-except-for-that-magical-summer-of-'85-when-our-otherwise-"east-coast"-squadron-got-"Super-B"-aircraft-which-meant-we-had-to-requalify-all-crews-from-scratch-and-the-skipper-had-to-get-special-permission-from-the-training-2-star-admiral-to-let-us-do-our-four-week-cruise-not-in-typical-locations-like-Rota-Spain-but-instead-we-had-to-the-only-place-on-the-planet-where-the-"Super-B"-mission-simulators-were-still-up-and-running-so-we-went-there-and-that-place-that-we-went-to-and-did-lots-of-"stuff"-was,-uh....well,-
Barber's Point, Hawaii
War is hell.
