Jim Rusciano:  

In 1968 after my sister died of cancer I joined the Air Force and stayed for 24 years. After basic training and electronic schools I was stationed in Rome...NY not Italy. I spent about 9 months there and then off to Tucson Arizona for some more training for 3 months and off to balmy Southeast Asia for a fun filled 2 years, 1970 to 1972. I did get to work on the first Laser guided bomb equipped aircraft, that was interesting. After 2 years in hot and humid SEA the Air Force felt I needed some dry heat so I was sent back to Tucson from 1972 to 1974 with a few side trips back to Asia. This let me work on the U-2 spy aircraft and the first C-130 aircraft carrying drone spy aircraft whose mission it was to fly over North Vietnam. So then I was sent back to Southeast Asian again, oh joy. When I got back to Tucson in December 1973 they sent me to the cold northeast for a 4 year tour in Plattsburg NY starting in January 1974 until November 1977 working on aircraft out in the sub zero weather. From November 1977 to November of 1980 I was stationed in Germany and enjoyed that a lot. However I didn't enjoy the multiple trips to Spain Turkey and Iran. So from the cold of Germany and the heat of the Deserts in Turkey, Spain and Iran. They felt I needed to go back to the States and also keep me in the heat. So of course I got stationed in the Mojave desert in California from November 1980 to July of 1982 with a few side trips to Korea and other lovely places like Las Vegas. Then in July of 1982 I was se...Expand for more