Michael Fullerton:  

In 1795, I walked from Incline to Reno, Las Vegas (to visit Jeff Roberts, when he started to work in Vegas), then, a day later, walked to Palm Springs, Los Angeles, Thousand Oaks (and visited an ex-Marine Corps DI, that was the Mechanical Engineering professor at Simi University to see his sprint cars (that he and his daughter were building in their garage; he was 5th generation race car builder/designer and driver). Up to Santa Barbra, and up Hi-way one (got stuck half way up) to San Fransisco, Sacramento, Donner Lake, then home to get my orders to show up at Ft. Meade MD and the 519th MP; this took a month to walk out. In the three years service, I've been assigned to the MP's, Engineering, guinea pig for Natick Research Labs in Natick Massachusetts, medical, Green Berets Aviation in Fairbanks, got cobra airlifted to the Communications Command in Ft Richardson and then was assigned to the USACC Agency in Anchorage, Alaska and finally left the service assigned to the Presidio in San Fransisco. I (ETS) left the ARMY and went to aircraft mechanics school (Northrop technical institute, in LA) and got my Airframe & Powerplant (A&P) license as well as my certification with the FCC as an avionics technician. I then (80's) went to work for the Army (civilian), Depot, in Sacramento...Expand for more