Steven Steinberg:  

n Transmitter Repair School at Fort Monmouth in New Jersey and in January of 1968 I was sent overseas for a hardship tour of duty in Korea. I wound up at Armed Forces Korea Network where I wrangled an audition as a network continuity writer and was assigned to cover the negotiations on the DMZ at Panmunjon of the release of the sailors of the captured USS Pueblo. This led to a stint as a deejay and when the Korean government granted AFKN an additional half-hour of TV each day, the brass decided they needed something to appeal to the tens of thousands of American children, dependents, stationed there. Thus was born the Professor Von Brain show, which I wrote and starred in, airing daily. If you do a Google search for AFKN Alumni, you'll find a photo album. Upon returning to the states I was sent to Fort Ritchie in Maryland. This was the post that supported a top secret underground installation, buried deep within a mountain, that was straight out of a James Bond movie. I spent a year there and I would tell you all about it, but I signed documents in 1969 that pretty much stated that if I ever talked about it, they would "disappear" me. I left the army in 1970 with the rank of Specialist 5th, E-5, the equivalent of a buck sergeant and my 3 year hitch is one of the proudest accomplishments of my life.