Dwaine Howell:
CLASS OF 1962
North High SchoolClass of 1962
Bakersfield, CA
Emerson Junior High SchoolClass of 1958
Bakersfield, CA
Roosevelt Elementary SchoolClass of 1956
Bakersfield, CA
Longfellow Elementary SchoolClass of 1953
Bakersfield, CA
Hawthorne Elementary SchoolClass of 1952
Bakersfield, CA
Dwaine's Story
Life
After graduation I attended Bakersfield Jr. College. I took a semester off and was immediately notified that I was being drafted so I enlisted in the Army to receive the training I wanted. I went to basic training at Ft. Orde, CA and went to tech school for helicopter heavy maintenance at Ft. Eustis, VA. After tech school I was assigned to the First Cavalry Division in Korea, working on CH21 helicopters. After my tour of duty in Korea I was assigned to the Aviation Training command at Ft. Rucker Alabama where I was an instructor for CH21 helicopter crew chiefs. I was discharged from the Army in 1967 and gained employment at the Boeing Airplane Co. in Seattle Washington working on the 727 aircraft.
I returned to Bakersfield in 1968 and went to work at Bakersfield Aviation Service at Meadows Field.
In the summer of 1968 I attended airframes and powerplant tech school at Northrop Institute of Technology I graduated in 1969. After Northrop I got a job in San Diego, California at ...Expand for more
a repair station for Beech aircraft. I went from San Diego to Palmdale in 1970 and was working on the L1011 aircraft.
In 1972 I was employed by the Grumman Aircraft and Engineering Corp. at Pt Mugu, California. I was working on the F14 Tomcat in flight test and evaluation. With the F14 I was accepted on the Iran export program in 1976. In Iran I worked with the Imperial Iranian Airforce. I was training the technicians on F14 maintenance procedures. I returned from Iran in 1978 and continued working at Pt Mugu until 1980 at which time I was transferred to the mod program at NAS Miramar doing updates on the F14 airframe for the Navy.
In July 1981 I married Roxanne in Bakersfield, CA and we have been happily together since that day.
In 1996 the F14 was transferred from Nas Miramar to NAS Oceana in Virginia. I returned to Pt Mugu CA. at that time and worked in the planning department until my retirement. I retired from Northrop Grumman July 21, 2004 and I live in the San Diego area.
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