John Reed:
CLASS OF 1970
Pasco High SchoolClass of 1970
Pasco, WA
University High SchoolClass of 1970
Spokane, WA
John's Story
Military
gads...
Well... remember the "draft"? You know way back when...
I was selected to participate... just finished High School and started my first year in college then. Wham... my number was pulled. I was guessing I would be in the 200 range but ooohhh no. My number was the 4th pick for the year 1971. Going through BootCamp in San Diego was a total eye opener then off to my first Duty assignment... Guam.. did not know where this place was. No such thing as google back then.. remember?
My field of work was telecommunications...leaving Guam my next assignment was Japan where I lived for a few years and enjoying the tour of duty. I would up retiring from the Navy in 1991 with 20 years 1 month and 10 days. One day we were counting up how many countries I have been to and it was about 28 different co...Expand for more
untries from around the world.
Lived in:
Guam 2 years
Japan 3 years
Philippines 1 years
Morocco 3 years
South Carolina 2 years
Hawaii 4 years
Long Beach CA 3 years
Oakland CA 2 years
Been on ship that passed through the Panama Canal and stopped at every country in South America that had a sea port. Rounded the southers tip of South America and back up the Atlantic side of the continent. Been to Nigeria, Liberia, Ivory Coast along with several other countries in Africa and of course made the transit from Long Beach CA via ship to the persian gulf where we enjoyed patrolling the water ways with little liberty call ports available.
Been to Hong Kong and toured China, Korea and climbed MT. Fuji in Japan.
This goes to make one appreciate what we really have here in the US once you see how others live.
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