Charles Jantzen:  

I thought that I would finally take some time and reveal a little about myself. After graduating high school, I attended Cameron University (it was actually named Cameron State Agricultural College at that time) for a year and a half. I probably spent more time in the Student Union playing snooker than class and grades started slipping. All of this was during the Vietnam War era and I found out that I was coming up as number one on the draft list for the area. I decided to enter the U.S. Navy on the deferred enlistment plan in order to finish out the semester. I completed boot camp in San Diego and then Hospital Corps School. At that time it was about every other class that was assigned to the Fleet Marines and our class was due. Well, there was a big push to increase troops to Vietnam and they assigned 2 classes in a row for assignment to the Marines and our class drew stateside assignments. Twenty-one of us in our class was assigned to Naval Hospital Oakland. I must say that it was good times living in the San Francisco Bay area. My initial assignment was for four years and when it came time for reenlistment decision, I opted to get out and stayed in the Bay area. The job situation at the time was tough and after 6 months, I enlisted again and this time it was with the Air Force. My first assignment was Brooks AFB in San Antonio working on projects with NASA. After one year at Brooks I received orders to the USAF Hospital Wiesbaden Germany. I spent four years there and it was a great assignment. I made the most of it with travelling Europe. Great times! My next assignment was USAF Hospital, Nellis AFB, NV. Living in Las Vegas was something else. I completed a relative short tour there and then received an assignment to the hospital at the United States Air Force Academy. I have a lot of great memor...Expand for more