George Padgett:
CLASS OF 1968
Richland High SchoolClass of 1968
North richland hills, TX
University of Texas at Arlington - ChemistryClass of 1972
Arlington, TX
George's Story
I've been living around Savannah, Ga for the last 41 years. I get back to Fort Worth nearly every year to vist relatives. We have a girl in college and a boy who just made Eagle Boy Scout. I've been an adult boy scout leader for 20 years. 33 years of good marrage and hard work. I retired from the Chatham-Savannah Counter Narcotics Team. I was the intellignece analyst. An MBA from Savannah State landed me that job. I don't think that without the GI Bill, I could have gone back to college. My time in the Army was a love/hate relationship. I served at Fort Knox Ky, Fort Riley KS, Fort Benning Ga, Fort Drum NY, Fort Stewart GA, Berlin Germany, and Kirshgoens West Germany. I was a platoon leader three times, company commander three times, several t...Expand for more
imes a staff officer, a battalion motor officer, and Chief of Fort Stewart Range Control. I missed Viet Nam by 3 days! My orders were changed to West Berlin, East Germany. I have walked with a limp ever since I was injured in Airbourne Ranger school. When my college friends were starting to make $10,000 per year, I was getting $3,200 in the army. I crammed 4 years of partying into 5 years at UTA. Mr. Dixon, I learned a lot from you in high school chemistry and that's the degree I got from UTA.
You may rememeber my '63 Chevy with the 409 in highschool. I'm still building hot rods. I currently own an 1948 Anglia with a 671 blower. See dixielandcruisers.org/george_padgett_project4.html I'm the webmaster for Dixieland Cruisers of Savannah, Ga.
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