Roy Hooper:
CLASS OF 1974
Mt. Blue High SchoolClass of 1974
Farmington, ME
Roy's Story
Roy is from New Sharon, Maine. Roy's schools include Mt. Blue High School. Roy works(ed) at Maine State Prison, State Of Maine.
One of Roy's favorite quotes is:"Start with looking up the "Desiderata"...a poem not a quote, but anyone that really knows anything about me knows I don't always have a simple answer to such questions. If you want it simple...try General McAuliffe's answer to the German commanders demand for his surrender of the 101st Airborne Division at the Battle of Bastogne during WWII......"NUTS!" And I'm partial to a line from Monty Python's Quest for the Holy Grail..."I fart in your general direction!"".
More about Roy:"Born an Air Force brat in Japan..also lived in Virginia and Hawaii untill my father retired when I was 11. Moved back to where he was born and raised in west-central Maine and lived there untill I enlisted in the Army after graduation in 1974. Trained as an infantryman...Expand for more
and a paratrooper and got assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division mid-February 1975. 10 years with the 1st Battalion 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 2 years with XVIII Airborne Corps G-3 then 3 1/2 years at Gelnhausen Germany with 1/48th Infantry and 4/18th Infantry, 3rd Armor Division. Then back to the airborne with Joint Readiness Training Center Battalion task force observer/controllers and HHC 1/509th PIR for 3 years in Arkansas. Last duty assignment was senior militarty science instructor at Slippery Rock University, Pennsylvania Army ROTC. Retired 1 December 1996 after 22+ years with the rank of master sergeant, as a master parachutist and both combat infantryman and expert infantryman. Returned to Maine the end of May 1998 and hired on as a prison guard for the state....been there ever since. It isn't glorious, but someone has to do it and it isn't a job that will disappear any time soon.".
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