Danny Moody:
CLASS OF 1988
California High SchoolClass of 1988
Whittier, CA
Granada Middle SchoolClass of 1984
Whittier, CA
Danny's Story
My Story:
Three weeks after graduation I was in Fort Jackson, South Carolina for Army Basic Training. Not much of a summer vacation. From there I went to Military Intelligence school in Pensacola, Florida. I chose that job mainly because Pensacola is the Blue Angels' home town! The Army wouldn't even tell me what the job was, it was too secret.
I spent the next two and a half years in Berlin, Germany, and did my part to help the Wall come down. What a place in history! During the Cold War, I worked in a listening post called Teufelsberg (Devil's Mountain). The "Hill" was made of rubble from an estimated 400,000 buildings destroyed in WWII.
While in Berlin, I met my wife, from Poland. Our son was born in Poland in 1990 and is now a freshman at CSU Long Beach. We lived in a German apartment just outside the base, which had been used to train Hitler's Cadet Corps. During a trip to my wife's hometown, Krakow, Poland, we visited the concentration camp, Auschwitz. If being inside an actual gas chamber doesn't make you feel a lit...Expand for more
tle weird, I don't know what would. We also visited Paris for the air show. The air show rocked...France blew.
In 1991, I came back home and worked as an echocardiographer (performing heart ultrasounds). Getting paid was a b*tch, so I guess I thought getting a REALLY stupid, second job as a courier would help. I spent more money on gas and parking tickets than I got paid. Other jobs included sales at Oshman's Sporting Goods, data entry, courier (yeah...again), graphics and teaching echocardiography. I never left the Army completely; I went Reserve in 1992, after six months as a civilian. Military Intelligence is cool, technologically speaking, but military BS and red tape suck, big time. I've been on nine missions to Korea and it's usually fun, but either really cold or really hot.
Today, I'm an analyst contracted by the FBI doing counterdrug stuff, yet I still manage to get my monthly dose of amusement by training with the Army. As a matter of fact, our 20-year reunion is in the middle of four GLORIOUS days of Army training.
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