Julius Edwards:  

I'm one of 2 the guys and Henderson that was called "foot". I am the more handsome one though. Let's see where to begin. When we graduated in 75 Stanley Fleming and I moved in with his mother in Plainfield New Jersey to attend Bell & Howell School of electronics a.k.a. DeVry School of technology now. After about three months of cracking those books I decided I wanted to see the world so I joined the Air Force. Only to find out later that Stanley had joined as well and entered a month after I did and 76. I stayed in the Air Force 14 years getting out in 1990. My job in the Air Force was air passenger/ air freight specialist. In other words I delivered troops and cargo around the world. My first duty station from 76 to 78 was Norton Air Force Base in San Bernardino California. While on temporary duty to Edwards Air Force Base in the Mohave Desert playing war-games I had the pleasure of welcoming Joe Brody on our flight. At that time Southern California was wild I was only 60 miles from Los Angeles. We would go to the beach in the mornings in a night go to the mountains and throw snowballs, how about that. In May of 78 I was deployed to Kadena airbase Japan. It was on the beautiful island of Okinawa. The island was only 60 miles long and 22 miles wide at its widest point. It was shaped like a "t". I did not know that Warner Evans was stationed over there with the Marine Corps until he returned from leave and I saw him in my terminal. He needed a ride to his camp on the North side of the island. I borrowed a friend's car; I think our knees were under our chins because the car was so small. It sounded like a chainsaw and we laughed all the way to his camp. I left Okinawa December of 79. My next station was Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield California which was about 60 miles from San Francisco, wow! I was at Travis for 18 months, got married and returned to Japan in 1981. This time I was stationed on the mainland right outside Tokyo at Yokota Airbase. Man, Japan is a fascinating country. If you never been there it may be a vacation spot that you might want to check out. It’s an 18 hour flight but is worth it. Needless to say once I got a taste of the Far East it was not hard to dismiss the other side of the world with all that snow and rain. I loved the tropics and the Far East, yeah! What made this assignment so wonderful was that I was married and had three step kids and was stationed with three friends from Henderson, how bout them apples. You from Henderson remember Lenny "Spanky" Jordan, Eddie and Pam Loyd. While overseas a played a lot of contact football. That's where I got the notion to become, NBA official. I was playing and I started refereeing basketball and football while there. My wife at that time was aspiring to be an actress. When her Japanese agents would need Americans, men especially they would call me and my two boys. I'll get my friends and we will go to Tokyo and do television shows, maga...Expand for more