Kathryn Mcintyre:  

I had typed a pretty long story and then my computer jumped a page and I lost it, so here is the short version. If you want to know details just ask. Aug 1981 - AACC - flunked out academically dismissed Feb 1982 - AACC back on academic probation Nov 1982 - met first husband (that sounds so bad) May 1984 - married first husband Oct 1986 - divorced first husband Aug 1988 - Off to AF Basic training in Lackland AFB San Antonio TX - I can see the looks of shock :-) Oct 1988 - Off to Keesler AFB Biloxi MS - trained as an Aircraft Control and Warning Radar Specialist (Tactical radars that interrogate an Aircraft's transponder to determine friend or foe - if foe - call in the big guns and buh-bye!) Dec 1988 - met second husband (I promise this is the finale one) Jun 1989 - Graduated "Tech School" and married my second husband Aug 1990 - Reassigned to Vehicle Ops at Pope AFB Fayette"nam" NC - fun fact - Pope is in the middle of Fort Bragg and exists solely to support the 82d ABN Boy do I have some stories - DESERT SHIELD and DESERT STORM Nov 1992 - Reassigned to the METNAV shop at Pope (Meteorological and Navigations Systems on the ground for the Aircraft to navigate) you were considered an expert if you say the full title without getting your tongue wrapped around your eye teeth! Jul 1993 - Lazy NCO and paperwork snafu and I ended up in Personnel (HR Basically) Oct 1993 - Off to Travis AFB CA halfway between San Fran and Sacramento (hubby became a recruiter) 1993 - 199? - Constant deployments to Middle East everytime Saddam Hussein did not cooperate with inspectors! Aug 1996 - Hubbie assigned to the AMOG at Travis - anytime the balloon went up in any part of the world the AMOG was the first in to establish Command and Control until more permanent folks arrived then back to base and back to transfer command and control for redeployment Jan 2000 - Off to Andersen AFB Guam (hubbie off to Osan AB Korea) fun fact- in the AF Join-spouse overseas is same theater - LOVED LOVED LOVED this assignment and want to return some day. Got Open Water Deep Dive certified and dove my butt off!!!! Also realized a bucket list check off - went to the NCO Academy in Japan so I got to see some of where I was born May 2001 - Back to Travis Sep 11 2001 - You know - so hubbie was off as soon as planes could fly again, came back in Nov and redeployed in Dec for a year April 2002 - Pop diagnosed with cancer and in July was transferred into Hospice Jan 2003 - Off to the Pentagon - hubbie retired in 2002 Most of my flight mates had been in the Pentagon for Sep 11 and I am still in awe of them, After surviving, instead of using our sister flight at Bolling, those same people who had just survived had to go back in and do search and recovery (let's face it there was no rescue!) if you could say there was anything good about it, the Wing the plane hit was just finishing renovations or casualties could have been SO MUCH worse. 1 Sep 2008 - after trying for years to move to Fort Meade (we lived in Hanover which didn't even exist in 1988 when I left) - I retired from the Air Force.My retirement was held at the Women's Memorial at Arlington Became a Human Capital Strategist for the Program Management Office Defense Travel System in Arlington VA Mar 2009 - Off to the 93 Air Ground Operations Wing (AGOW) at...Expand for more