Richard Dickison:  

Life After HS I attended Olympic Jr. College in Bremerton for a year initially intending to major in chemistry, physics, or engineering. I then decided to have the GI Bill pay for the rest and joined the Air Force in '68. I was selected to be part of the group that monitors nuclear blasts from other countries for the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. I was trained to operate airborne nuclear detection and collection equipment. We would detect nuclear blasts in Russia, China, France in the South Pacific, etc then go chase down the cloud from the blast, fly into it and collect debris for analysis. We would also fly over the Nevada test site to monitor for leaks from the underground blasts. Anyway, I got to go to such interesting places as Pago Pago, Samoa to monitor the French South Pacific blasts; Japan where we would fly between Japan and Alaska monitoring the effluent from Russia and China, over the North Pole at 500 feet altitude while we orbited inside a Chinese nuclear cloud. It wasn't just a job, it was an adventure. You can go to Youtube.com and search for "F-0092 Air Weather Service Aerial Sampling and Weather Reconnaissance Program" to see a video of ...Expand for more