Donald Wohlschlegel:
CLASS OF 1982
Doss High SchoolClass of 1982
Louisville, KY
Donald's Story
Donald is from Louisville, Kentucky. Donald's schools include Doss High School. Donald works(ed) at United States Navy Retired.
Music Donald likes includes Elvin Bishop, Ted Nugent, Eric Clapton. Movies Donald likes include Blazing Saddles, The Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human, Benny & Joon. TV shows Donald likes include All in the Family, Father of the Pride, The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show.
One of Donald's favorite quotes is:""Excuse me while I whip this out" from the movie Blazing Saddles
"Boy, you sure got a pretty mouth" from the movie Deliverance
"What we have here is a failure to communicate" from the movie Cool Hand Luke
"It's only a flesh wound" from the movie Monty Python And The Holy Grail
These are my favorite sayings, not necessarily quotations:
"Been there! Done that!...Bought the T-shirt!"
"I'm an American! I can do what I want!"
"Didn't I tell you? I guess it's none of your damn business then!"".
More about Donald:"I joined the Navy in 1983 as an electronics technician and ended up retiring after 21 years. I met my wife, Lisa when my 1st ship pulled in to Mobile, AL; and we moved back to Mobile when I retired. We have a son, Andrew, a daughter, Amanda, and a granddaughter, Emma, from Andrew and his ex-wife. I have several hundred pictures on Myspace and I don't really have time to repost them here, so if your interested, you can check me out there, also.
I have not played my trumpet in about 18 years, but before I quit playing, I got the chance to play for the opening of a Milwaukee Brewers ballgame while I was in the Great Lakes boot camp ba...Expand for more
nd; and I played for President Reagan's birthday celebration in Dixon, IL when I was in the Great Lakes Service School Command Band. Tha highlight of my musical past, though, was when I was able to jam with the "late" Buddy Rich and his band in 1984. He gave a free concert on base in Chicago and he and his band warmed up in our band room, so he invited us to join in while they were warming up.
Here is a time line of my time in the Navy:
4/18/83 Left Louisville for boot camp
4/83 - 4/84 boot camp and "A" School in Chicago, IL
4/84 - 8/84 "C" School in Mare Island, CA
9/84 - 1/88 USS Tattnall (DDG-19) in Mayport, FL
10/85 - 4/86 Persian Gulf deployment
1/88 - 2/88 "C" School in Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, TX
2/88 - 10/91 Naval Air Station Meridian in Meridian, MS
10/91 - 10/94 Special Boat Unit Twenty in Little Creek, VA
2/92 Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape (SERE) School in Brunswick, ME
10/92 - 4/93 Mediterranean Deployment
9/93 - 3/94 Puerto Rico Deployment (Naval Special Warfare Unit Four)
11/94 - 2/95 "C" School in Norfolk, VA
2/95 - 6/95 Ashore Mobile Contingency Communications (AMCC) Van Six in Norfolk, VA
6/95 - 3/98 Mobile Integrated Command Facility Atlantic (MICFACLANT) in Portsmouth, VA
4/98 - 4/99 USNS Apache (T-ATF 172) in Little Creek, VA
6/99 - 3/01 USS Shreveport (LPD-12) in Norfolk, VA
9/99 - 5/00 Mediterranean Deployment
3/01 - 4/04 Ships Intermediate Maintenance Activity (SIMA) Norfolk in Norfolk, VA
4/30/04 Retired".
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