Rick R Gordon:  

I've been all over the world and I retired from the Army NG this year with total service of 29 years 7 months and 26 days. But 14 of those years I was a Navy Seabee and tell you the truth as I got older I dreaded packing those bags after a hard weeks work and ending up overseas. So I joined the 1460th in Midland just to be close to home. I had two boy's late in life, one born in 1995 who is 16 now and one in 1997 who is 14 now, which makes a big gap between my 34 year old daughter and my oldest boy. I have a granddaughter who is 1 1/2 and a grandson who is one week 3 hours younger than my youngest son. This is why I'm a Boy Scout Scoutmaster in Coleman and I do know how to Camp and I pass my training on to these boy's. I've lived in Beaverton since 1980 and I now live in my free and clear home which was paid for with 38 years as a Pipefitter. My wife and I dream of when the boys are gone and we can go south during the winter and come back during the summer.The old profile picture that was on my site was the last act as Sargent Gordon during a service of a young man killed in Iraq. I've missed class reunions because I was always overseas or on duty at that same time. I missed the last one because I changed my home PC to Vista and forgot to rejoin classmates even my e-mail address had changed so when I ran into Ken Anderson and he told me that our class had the reunion already it all rushed into me how come I recieved no notice about the reunion. For those who are in Cam Rahn Bay club I was assigned to US Army Vietnam but attached to MACV TM30 across the Bay on the main Land. I came in once a month to get paid and more than once was yelled at for having a loaded weapon while standing in the pay line. Everyone wondered who I was. I had permanent gate pass, permanent travel orders and a ID card that had on the back stated all police and armed forces were to aid me in my mission if requested. I never used that though, ever. Thats when Nixion claimed that ...Expand for more