Willem Mous:
CLASS OF 1964
Kearny High SchoolClass of 1964
San diego, CA
Willem's Story
Hello fellow classmates.
I went straight into (12 weeks) of Navy Boot Camp after High School, as I joined in March of 1964. Got part of an AA degree at Mesa College and was called up for active duty in 1966 and went onto Active Duty in the Navy. Spent some time in Long Beach Naval Yard and then went to Port Hueneme, as I was being sent into the Seabees (USNMCB 4). Deployed to Danang, Vietnam later in '66 and spent 2 tours in Danang and Camp Evans before coming home to be spit upon by my fellow Americans, before going back to school. I then went back to Mesa College to get the rest of my AA degree in Business Admin. All in all, I spent + or - 39 years in the Naval Reserve (half of which was non-pay) and retired as an E-6 (they had too many of certain rates, so we either got out or went nonpay). Couldn...Expand for more
't become an officer because my eyes weren't good enough for that endeavor.
After getting my degree, I spent some time working odd jobs in the theatre business, ship building business, etc. before getting a job at North Island working as a Civil Servant. I worked with some of my classmates there, but never kept up with them, at the Naval Air Rework Facility, as it was known as back then, had + or - 5000 people working there.
Retired from Civil Service in 2011 and have been retired since.
I used to collect stamps and coins, but all that is gone as I can't take it with me.
I like reading good fiction books and do a little bit of dabbling with house plants. I joined some of the garden clubs at Balboa Park and have kept up with a few of them. I like photography, sunsets and flowers (mostly God's creations).
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