Charles Dees:  

After high school, I took a summer job with the Forest Service in Kernville (1959) and later that year enrolled in college at Humboldt State. I worked a total of five summers for the Forest Service, 4 at Kernville and one (1963) on the Sierra at Dinkey Creek near Shaver Lake. I graduated with a BS in Forest Management in January 1964 and concurrently was drafted in the Army serving basic at Ft Ord then on to Officer Candidate School at Ft Sill, OK. I was commisioned in artillary as a 2LT then transferred into Army Intelligence and Security (AIS) then attended OFC at Ft Devens, MA the on to one year in Korea (Taegu and Seoul) the back to the states to finish out my active duty time as the Post Engineer at a very small military facility called Vint Hill Farms Station, Warrenton, VA about 40 miles south of DC. Then back to good old Porterville to help my father herd turkeys at a place near Shafter, CA. After a year of that, I decided to get a little different job and got on with Rain For Rent in Bakersfield. By then it was January 1968. In 1964 I was transferred to Albuquerque, NM and in November of that year, married Sherry Sanford of Bakersfield. Our first son was born there in July of 1976. In February of 1977 we transferred again to Rupert, ID still working in the irrigation equipment business. In November of 1982 we moved back to CA (Oakhurst)...Expand for more