Sherry Cassity:  

ger position came open. I applied for that and got that. I did the candy buying for the Midlothian store and then transfered to the Culpeper store. I ordered the candy for a while then my leg gave me problems so I went to the phones for a while and then I became the Lingerie Department Manager. I worked there until my leg gave out for good and now I am retired. I spent 11 years with Walmart and I would still be there today if my leg would allow. I miss my coworkers and I try to visit them as often as I can. Military I went to basic training at Ft. McClelland, AL in Nov. 1982. I think there was only one female company there at that time, I was a Delta Tiger. We came home for Christmas break and then returned to finish basic on New Years Day. After basic I went on to Ft. Lee, VA for AIT in Material Control and Accounting. I finished AIT fast and was asked to stay on and help others in the course who were having trouble so I did. Then I went to Ft. Benning, GA for Jump School (crazy I know but...) I wanted to jump from planes. I hurt my ankle on the swing land trainer and was told by an Army Dr. that my ankles weren't really strong enough to do this line of work. So, making a hard decision I did not go back to finish my training. I did stay with my class until they graduated (I worked mostly payroll, recording names and pay amounts into ledgers...woohoo, what fun NOT) It was very boring but it helped pass the time for me and I helped everyone draw their pay. I was supposed to be attatched to the 82nd Airborn Division after Jump School but I was sent to Ft. Campbell, KY and the 101st Air Assult Division instead. The 82nd jumps from planes and the 101st repels from helicopters. They wanted me to do that but with my ankles I declined. I went to work in Tech Supply mostly doing paperwork. I learned how to fill out parts request, send them in and fill them when we got the parts for the units who requested them, how to exchange parts (DX) and how to run all the reports. When I got to TS their idea of filing old request was putting them in a shoe box and storing them in a closet which meant hours of digging to find a certain request when it was needed. I introduced and organized a filing system for them and spent most of my time filing them properly. I met my husband Gary at Ft. Campbell, we were in the same dorm. We met in the tv room and the following weekend he asked me out. We have been together since then. We got married after dating for 8 weeks and we just celebrated our 24th wedding anniversary. I was a PFC and was about to be promoted to Spec4 when we found out I was pregnant. After looking around the area at the daycare centers we decided that I would get out and stay home with the baby and I did. Gary was sent to Germany and we followed a few months later. Our daughter was born in Germany at 5th General Hospital. After her birth I wanted to come back into the Army. They told us we would have to sign custody of the kids to someone else, someone in Germany who could take them back to the states if we were both deployed and we said NO, so I didn't go back in. Gary got sent to Ft. Riley, KS and that is where our third child was born. He was sent to Greece and we got to go with him. He was stationed at a small Army post in Eleusis (Elevsis) but we lived just a few miles outside the gates of Athens Air Force Base. We lived there for 14 months and I got to play on the Army Women's Volleyball Team (we didn't win but it was great fun). From there we went all over Germany (by way of Italy) closing down bases with pershing missles. Gary got sent to Ft. Lewis, WA and that is where he got out. He now works at Ft. Belvoir, VA as a civilian working for the Army. We have seen a great deal in our travels and we even made the front page of the Stars And Stripes (the Army News Paper) way back in Sep. 1991? (I think), getting off the plane after a very, very long flight from Germany with 3 young kids.