Marty Glaze:  

I joined the Navy in Oct. 1960 spent four year on activity duty, two years on Coronado Island California, one year at Moffett Field, in Mountain View Calif. Five months Barbers Point Hawaii, and nine months in Adak Alaska. I married at age 30 in KCK, was married for 25 years and have two wonderful boys age 36 and 34 and six grand children. I have been divorced for thirteen years and live in Shawnee Ks. I got remarried June 2013 I sold my business the 1st of august 07 an auto repair center in Shawnee, Ks . I had been there 26 yrs. I'm back into aviation as a flight instructor. Before owning my business I worked for Cessna Aircraft, I started in Aviation in the Navy as a flight engineer in a Anti Submarine Patrol Squadron, that was stationed in San Diego, Calif. at NAS North Island, Coronado Island in the bay of San Diego. We flew Lockheed Neptunes (like you really know what that is) searching for submarines, and taking pictures of any shipping in our part of the Pacific Ocean and send it to Naval Intelligence so they could keep track of all ships all over the world. Our patrols would last 18 to 20 hours at couple thousand feet to two hundred feet, it got exciting at times. I have been to Hawaii, three different times and flew out of NAS Barbers Point, that was awesome for a 19 year old from Kansas, Toto! Then we moved the Squadron to NAS Moffett Field, in Sunnyvale Calif. Its close to San Francisco, we were there about one years and then we moved to Adak, Alaska, that was not fun, we were closer to Russia, then the main land of the good old USA, the weather was horrible up there lots of snow and cold weather, we saw the sun shine for two days in the nine months we were there. When I was discharge out of the Navy, I came back to K.C. and worked for two months for Montgomery Wards selling mens cloths 7th and minnesota ave.I t...Expand for more