Richard E Bolser Sr:  

Life: I have been married four times. The first marriage was a mistake and lasted only six months, well actually it was over on the third day, but I hung in there for 6 months trying to make it work. No children were born in this marriage. My second marriage lasted seven years. She had a duaghter before we met. We had one son in this marriage. He is named after me. He is now in his second marriage and has three children; one stepson, one son from his first marriage and one daughter with his present wife. They married just before he darted off for a tour of duty in Iraq. My third marriage lasted thirty-three years. My third marriage brought me five children; three daughters and two sons. This gives me a total of six children. My two oldest daughters are married. My oldest daughter had her first child, a girl, April 25, 2004, and is expecting her third child . This will be my 7th grandchild by blood relation. My second oldest daughter just delivered her first son on January 21, 2004 and has just recently given birth to a beautiful girl. She has a stepson from her husband's first marriage. My second son is currently living at home with me and my wife and he is working. My youngest son is engaged and living in Rodchester, NY near his fiance' and her family. The youngest one, my third daughter is living in Miami near her fiance's family. She is to get married in May 2008. My third wife called me to asked me for a divorce which I did for her, after over 6 years of estrangement. My fourth wife, Sherrie, has been a friend of mine from before I married my third wife. We have known each other for 38 years and althought we dated twice at the early part of our friendship nothing ever developed between us and each of us married others. We remained friends over all the years and stayed in touch on a very casual basis. Her last husband died from cancer July15, 2005. She saw my profile on a dating site and thought she recognized me and signed up just to send me a message to see if it was me. It was and we began chatting on line and in a couple days we started dating again. There was some real chemistry between us this time. We just had to get married to be able to complete that connection between us. We took a cruise to the western Carribean for our honeymoon. She has four childern, two boys and two girls. They all are grown and all with their own families. This now gives me ten children and soon 16 grandchildren. Life has been great ever since. I have plans to retire next year around the end of March. Sherrie is already retired from being a court specialist, but still retains her title as a majestrate. We are looking forward to many exciting and pleasant years of our retirement together traveling. The ages of my children are 37, 30, 28, 23, 21, 18, my step children 37, 28, 26 and 37. Military: I entered into the army via the draft after flunking out of college. I was inducted in Dever on December 22, 1965. I was sent to Ft. Bliss, TX right outside of El Paso, TX and just across the border from Juarez, Mexico. When the group I was in arrived at Ft. Bliss there was not enough of us to complete the Battalion for basic combat training (BCT). We had to sit in the barracks through the holidays doing nothing but cleaning details until after the 3rd of January 1966. I was promoted to private E-2 upon completion of BCT. I was stationed at the medical detachment at Letterman General Hospital on Presideo of San Francisco, CA. I was put into a lab training class about 6 weeks after arriving there. The class was to teach us (8) the basic things about the clinical laboratory in a hospital. The class ended in 8 weeks and I was transfered to Broke Amry Medical Center (BAMC, pronounced Bam-see) at Ft Sam Houston, TX. Ft. Sam Houston is the army's largest medical training facility. Why I was sent to Letterman General Hospital for basic lab training before being sent to BAMC I do not understand. That's the army for you. I stayed at BAMC for a little over 2 years and was promoted thrice; once to PFC second to specialist fourth class (SFC-4 or Spec-4) and to Spec-5. I took a re-enlistment burst of 6 more years while at BAMC with the contingent that I would attend Brooke Army Medical Field Service School BAMFSS (MFSS for short). I was transfered to the advanced medical laboratory school in February 1968. The school is 52 weeks long. Feb 1969 the class graduated and I was promoted to Spec-6. My next duty station was Ft Dix, NJ. I arrived there in March 1969. I was put on levy to Viet Nam in August 1969, and due to depart in October 1969. Before being shipped over seas those of us on that levy had to undergo a combat training program at Ft. Dix to prepare us for combat duty in Viet Nam. The day arrived for our departure. We were bused from Ft. Dix to McGuire air Force Base, NJ, right next door to Ft. Dix, and ushered onto Branif International Airlines. We were flown over the on a civilian airlines. The first leg ended in Denver, CO. then flew onto San Francisco, then to Honolulu, HW. The next stop was in Guam before landing at Benh Wa Air Port in Viet Nam. We had to refuel at each leg stop. We had to really dodge real bullets (LOL) when we disembarked from the plane, unlike the story told by Senator Clinton. The pilots came on the intercom to announce that we may be redirected to land in Siagon, Viet Nam. We had been circling the Benh Wa Air Port for 3 hours due to the air port being under seige from the VC (that's Viet Cong for those who are too young to remember the Viet Nam War), and the plane was running low on fuel. The pilots told us we had just enough fuel to fly to Siagon if we did not get clearance to land soon. Clearancce to land came just a few minutes later. Once we were on the ground the plane remained on the runway with the engines reved up enough to make an immediate take off should shelling resume. The plane was boraded by a seargent who instructed us on how we would disembark from the plan. A bus would pull right up to the steps of the plane. Only 5 men were allowed to exit at a time. That bus would rush them to a bunker. Another bus replaced the first one in a few seconds and we repeated the process until every last one of us were safely in the bunker 5 at a time. Everything went without an event. That was an experience I did not wish to repeat. I was assigned to the 9th Med Lab at Long Binh. I was the NCOIC of the Serology department. I was there for 6 months when I transfered to the 67th Evac Hospital stationed in Quin Nhon, Viet Nam and was the NCOIC and acting OIC (oficer in charge). I returned to the states in October 1970 when a young captain arrived to replace me. I recieved 30 days leave before reporting to Ft. Benning, GA. I remained at Ft. Benning assinged to the 2nd Evac Hospital as the NCOIC of the lab and attached to the lab at Martin Army Hospital, until I was honorably discharged in Feb 1974. College: I started out in college at Lamar Junior Community College in pre-veterinary. I spent too much time in the student center playing pitch and my grades suffered and I flunked out of college; drafted into the army. I returned to college in 1977 at Columbus College in Columbus, Ga. now named Columbus State University (CSU), (HEY! CSU Colorado Stat University, lol), to study Medical Technology. I was not able to complete my studies at this time because my wife was was hit from behind in our car and suffered whiplash rendering her unable to work, so I had to drop out of college and return to work in the laboratory to support my family. I lacked a year from graduating. A few years later I sat the registry exam and passed it and received my certification as a Clinical Laborarotoy Scientist. I also sat the GDHR state registry exam for the state of Georgia for Medical Technologist and passed it. I hold certification by both the state of Georgia for Medical Technologist and by the National Certifying Agency for Clinical Laboratory Scientists. I again returned to college in 1999 to take studies in Computer Science, more as a hobby interest than anything else. Again I had to discontinue my studies before completing the program. I learned enough to get myself into trouble when writing programs. I may return after I retire, not sure at this time. We are looking forward to getting on the road and seeing our beautiful and great country before something happens to it. Like another 9-11 attack. Employment: The posistions listed under employment exclude all of my military time on active duty. However some of this employment will co-exist with my time on active duty. The first job I had was a stable boy, cleaning out the horse stables at a riding stable just off post. I was asked to leave by the manager's ex-wife, who was the owner of the stables, because her ex-husband was supposed be the one doing th...Expand for more