Just because your career never put you on the "front lines", your service was still of vital importance to the overall operations, and for that . . . I THANK YOU! .
Yes, I'm a Viet Nam Era vet but I personally never got the chance to show my true worth. I enlisted in the U.S. Air Force 29 OCT 65 partly because I have always liked aircraft & armament, but mainly because I had just lost my wife & child, killed by a drunk driver, and there were just too many memories at home. I requested and got training as a Weapons Mechanic - Aircraft Armament Systems; but during training I developed a form of Heart Disease and was no longer eligible for military service and was given an Honorable Discharge on 13 May 66 .
I still wanted to do my part for my country, so my first job after I got out was to go to work in a Munitions Plant. I worked on the propellants for Sidewinder missiles; 3' long x 5" diameter Parachute Flares; and the prototype for the Foliage Penetrating Flare - for pilots downed in the jungles of Viet Nam - nicknamed "The Pocket Rocket".
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