Jerry D. Adams:  

After graduation from Seacrest High School in 1956, I enlisted in the USAF. My Basic training was at Lackland AFB, San Antonio, TX for the first 6 weeks, then on to Keesler AFB, in Biloxi. MS for phase II of training and technical school. Technical school was 6 hours a day 5 days a week for 18 weeks. Then 10 weeks of Microwave sets 6 hours a day very intensive in-depth training. From there I was transferred to Sembach, Germany for a few months and spent most of my time in Berlin, Germany which at the time was located 110 miles inside of the Communist Germany border. This was in 1957-58 before "The Wall" went up. Almost became and extra in the movie "The Young Lions" with Marlin Brando and Montgomery Cliff. From Berlin I was transferred to Turkey, initially about 90 miles from Istanbul, at a base called Karamusel. From there I was transferred up on the Black Sea to a town called Samsun. In 1959 I transferred back to Keesler AFB to teach Microwave Fundamentals, sixth phase of the fundamentals course. I got out of the USAF in mid August 1960, married Faye Williams from Daytona on October 1st, 1960 (54 years ago). We have two sons, one born in 1962 and the other born in 1964 and one Grand Daughter and two Great Grand Daughters who live near us. I went to work at Cape Canaveral, Florida for The Martin Company, later Martin-Marietta, I was a launch crew member in the Tracking and Flight Safety/Destruct system on the Titan I, Titan II, Gemini, Titan III from 1960-1967, then after a lay off I went over to the Saturn V/Apollo Lunar program working in the Swing Arm Electrical section for The Boeing Company...Expand for more