Leonard Allseitz:  

Life Well lets see. After leaving high school I joined the Navy. I traveled around a bit going to Groton Ct for submarine school and then Dam Neck Va for missile tech "A" school before I changed my rating to Tradevman. "Tradevman" stands for "Training Device Repairman". We called it toy doctor because what you do is fix simulators. Flight simulators, weapons systems simulators or any other training equipment such as film projectors and the like. I stayed in the Navy for almost 9 years until they told me I would have to go to sea. I had spent all my time on shore stations working with simulators and felt I was too old to start playing sailor so I got out and went to work for a company in Chicago called Gould. I hated that job and when I saw them putting up fences to keep the snow off of the freeways I started to long for San Diego. I got myself a job with a company called Cubic in San Diego working in the ACMI department. ACMI stands for air combat maneuvering and instrumentation. If you have seen the movie "Top Gun" then you have seen some of the equipment I worked on. It is a system to track pilots during training for dog fights and bombing runs. It was used by Top gun, the Navy's air combat school and Red Flag which is the Air Forces name for the same school. My position was called floater and what I did was to travel around to all the different ACMI sites and fill in for people that were on vacation, or sick, or just to flesh out man power for a new contract. That went well until I decided to get married. Once I was married it seemed I needed to be home a little more often so I changed jobs into the simulator division at Cubic. Worked at North Island in San Diego for about a year and then transferred to Mayport Fl. Worked in Mayport for about 3 years. I have two sons I acquire...Expand for more