Kenneth Wolske:  

I am going to add a little at a time since it would take me a few hundred years to catch you all up the way I type. Well here goes, Graduated from South St Paul High school and 7 days later I was in MCRD San Diego California going through Marine Corps boot camp. Talk about the toughest 13 weeks of my life. I made through as one lean mean fighting machine. Then I was off to Millington, TN for Aviation school. Spent the next 9 weeks working on F4 phantoms and A4 Sky hawk. Graduated #2 in my class, sure as heck wanted to be #1 just was one marine a little bit smarter then me. After graduating I was able to come home for 10 days leave (Vacation). I then had to report to my first actual duty station at MCAS El Toro CA. I will be stationed with VMGR-352 till June of 1982. During that tour in CA my son Kenny was born back here in St Paul on June 13, 1979. Then I was married on August 17th of that same year. Just less than 2 years later my next son was born April 6, 1981 and his name is Tim. I was discharge and came home to live which was very short I might say. I was back in the Marine Corps by Oct 1982 and going to VMGR-252 at Cherry Point North Carolina. While stationed at VMGR-252 I received my flight wings and became a First Mechanic on the KC-130 aircraft. I was part of a 7 man crew aboard a KC-130. After that I was flying to all parts of the world. My first tour in Okinawa came in July of 1983, spent 6 months on Okinawa before returning back home to VMGR-252 in January of 1984. In the next year that I was back home I really wasn't home. Was in Key west Florida, Yuma Arizona, Honduras and a few other places. Then in January 1985 I went back to Okinawa Japan for another 6 month tour with VMGR-152. Went to several countries like Korea, Philippines, Australia, Thailand and many other small Island in the south Pacific. After returning back to Cherry Point NC I was only there about 1 and a Half years and then back to Okinawa. This though I was with my family. We spent 5 years on Okinawa and that is where we adopted our daughter Brittany. She was very small and mal-nutritioned, but a bundle of joy for the Wolske family. While stationed on Okinawa we as a family got to do more sight seeing and viewing some of the customs and festivals that go on through out the year. Everything was very colorful and fun to see. The boys were in to baseball and soccer, which I got the chance to coach both for a few years. Sure didn't know much about soccer so I hit the books and talked to a few Japanese exchange student we had and I was able to learn a lot about soccer. It was so much fun teaching and learning by coaching young kids. Parents now on th...Expand for more