Larry Castagneto:
CLASS OF 1969
Satellite High SchoolClass of 1969
Satellite beach, FL
Butler High SchoolClass of 1969
Huntsville, AL
Larry's Story
Life
Butler High Huntsville and Sattelite. Beach High Fl.
class of 69
Went to westlawn for 7th 8th 9th grade then Butler High for part of 10th grade Dad was stationed Redstone and we lived on the Arsnel spent alot of time at the teen club and played in rock and roll band with Joel daily , Gary Miller, John Cofeen, Henery Boulton,..played football at both westlawn and B team at Butler Left Huntsville in Mar. 67 to move down to Patrick Airforce base Cape Kennedy FL. Area..
Finished school there at Sat. Bch High played in band with Joe Billington and frank lutz. Joe Billington, Terry winters, and I hung together ...was part of the drama club at SHS as well as the folk singing club.....surfed and lived the life of a surfer dude
Left Sat.Bch. Aug 69. went to FT Polk La. for Army Basic training. From there to USA Army
Warrant Officer Flight School graduated from flight school Sep. 70 as a warrant officer Army helicopter pilot .. was sent to vietnam where I flew hueys and huey gun ships left there Nov. 71 for Germany spent three yrs in Fulda Germany with the 11th Cav. returned to the states in 74 spent 12 yrs at Ft. Rucker Al as a instructor pilot at the US Army Flight school. Left Rucker in 85 Flew offshore in the oil fields of La. and Tx. for ten years flew as a bush pilot in Alaska for a year . flew fire suppression aircraft fighting forest fires out west for two seasons. Flew for
1 year in Peru South America US State Department.. did construction eng mgmt. for 8 yrs on major Government Construction projects.and petro chem
had 5 children 2 adopted boys 3 girls 4 grand children .
Last time in Sat. Bch.since 69. ...Expand for more
fall 1987 for 2 day. saw Susan Ghent. Frank Lutz ...and Joe
Billingtons Parents hoped to see Terry Winters and many more not enough time went to the school to look..and visit lot of good memories of good times and good friends very dissapointed that Lums was no longer there saw Joe and Debbie Bllington at there home in Orlando Hope to hear from many of you
went back to flying in spring of 2001 flew life flight air evac helicopters out of muscle shoals Al. and Albany Ga. was recalled back into the army Jan of 2002 stationed back where it all stared at ft. polk la. flying hueys helicopters for the medivac unit attached is a pic taken in 1970 in viet nam and one in 2002
hope to make both the Butler High reunion in June and the Sat.Bch . High reunion in Nov. will be my first for both schools really look forward to seeing old friend and revalidating old friendships ..................(UPDATE 31 Mar 09) well since the last update I transfered back to ft.rucker in 2003 went to iraq in 2005-2006 back to rucker left there in dec 2006 did two more years ft polk la which is were I did my last huey flight as a army aviator flew them for 40 years (see pics in album) polk is one of the last two places in the army still flying hueys left polk in oct 2008 back to ft. rucker were I will be retiring in 2010 if I chose to.. did make two Butler reuions over the last 5 years had a great time hope to make a SHS reuion somtime thought this year was the year but looks like it is not going to happen ... have a new "old" childhood passion in life ... horses own 3 now spend better psrt of my off time with them ......
Larry
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