Peter Mooney:
CLASS OF 1964
West High SchoolClass of 1964
Madison, WI
University of WisconsinClass of 1978
Madison, WI
St. Patrick's Elementary SchoolClass of 1960
Madison, WI
Blessed Sacrament SchoolClass of 1960
Madison, WI
Peter's Story
Life
I was at, HHC 6th Bn 9th INF, "Ground Surveillance Radar & Long Range Reconaissance", (171st Infantry Brigade - Mechanized). Manchu! My MOS's were 11F20, 17K20 & 11B20. The barracks was along the pond. On our floor, the top floor of HHC were billeted a medic platoon, mechanic platoon and Ground Surveillance. Of course, I remember the bitter cold during the winter; Sometimes down to 80 below. In the winter we'd drive to the field in our M116 track vehicles; and camp in our double walled tents with the gasoline stoves. Occasionally, we would put on our cross country skiis, and then pull our gear out to the field in sleds, as part of maneuvers. But, then when summer would come, yo...Expand for more
u would go out and get a tan. My cousin took me up in a small airplane, and viewed the animals and terrain. Of course we did some drinkin' in downtown Fairbanks. At a religious retreat in Glennallen we helped some native kids launch a fish-wheel. I attended NWTC at Ft. Greely, Alaska. I learned to ski, on "Birch Hill" at Wainwright. (I'm still into skiing and now am a member of "Nat'l Ski Patrol"). I used my GI Bill for an EE degree at UW-Madison, Wisconsin. In 1999, three of us took a 35' sailboat from Connecticut to Charleston and then across the Atlantic to the Azores. I do computer work. I can be contacted thru my website: mooney.ws (no com or or org anything else). .....pete
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