Rick Davey:  

Well It all begins after grad, I went into the Air Force in early 74 planning on making a career out it. I went through Basic Training at Lackland AFB, in San Antonio Texas followed with Technical schooling at Shepard AFB in Whitcha Falls Texas. In early 75 I was sent to Travis AFB in Fairfield California and stayed there until i finished my 4 year tour. I left the Air Force for the civilian world as we called it and followed my folks up to Eugene, Oregon. I tried my hand at several things while I was there but kept missing what I had left in the Air Force, so after 3 months I decided to return to the Military way of life and reenlisted. I was sent to Cannon AFB in New Mexico in July of 78 I stayed there until I was sent to the Island of Okinawa in Japan in Feb 81. My tour was only a year and a half but it was full of travel I made several deployments to Korea, several to the Philippines, Most of those trips were by HH-53 Super Jolly Green Giant Helicopters and were very long flights about 15 hours, but at the same time you got a chance to see things most people would never see because they fly so high in jet planes. One trip over the East China Sea i remember seeing a volcano on an island erupting which was pretty cool if I do say so myself. Another time when we were flying into Osan AB in Korea some of the guys in the squadron that were flying on the HC-130's asked me to shoot some picture for them off the open back ramp of the HH-53 so there I was with about 4 different 35 mm camera's around my neck shooting pic's for these guys as we are flying over rural Korea, what a ...Expand for more