Joseph Creamer:  

After graduating MRHS, I attended Stevens Institute Of Technology in Hoboken for 3 terms. In my first term, I did rather well academically; I was also a "walk-on" for AFROTC. And I learned my first programming language, FORTRAN, at Stevens Tech. Unfortunately, I contracted Measles in my second term and was sent home. When I returned to school the following year, I found I was unable to pick up where I left off in my studies and I chose to join the Active Air Force. My regular Air Force career was mostly in Texas: Basic Training at Lackland AFB in San Antonio (1971); Computer training at Sheppard AFB in Wichita Falls (1971); then a "regular job" at Dyess AFB in Abilene (1971). While at Dyess I was deployed to Andersen AFB, Guam to help process an extremely large amount of aircraft data reporting during a deployment which I was later told was one of the "Linebacker" deployments. Unfortunately, we never received any orders for the deployment. Still, I had a good time on the Rock - some of us were initially sent to live at the Marbo Barracks (an old WWII facility), others in "Tent City"; and finally in base housing with our supervisor, MSgt Eugene Plencner, who had recently PCS'd to Andersen and let us stay wit...Expand for more