Frank Schrader:  

Life Hi all, I don'’t know that this is all that interesting, but here'’s a short review of what I'’ve done since high school: I enlisted in the Navy right after graduation and served a little more than 3 years as an aircraft electrician. Just before I got out I married my high school sweet heart, Lois, and we'’re our 55th anniversary in 2016, more on that below. After I got out of the Navy, I worked for a short time in the civilian world as a quality control inspector but after about 6 months I went to work, full time, for the New Jersey National Guard on a Nike missile site. When the Nike sites closed in the early 70'’s I went back to being an aircraft electrician for the Guard. Since most people don'’t understand about '“full-time'” National Guardsmen, a brief explanation: Some one needs to maintain the equipment that the Guard uses for their weekend monthly and annual training assemblies. As a full-timer you'’re a federal employee but you also need to be a member of the National Guard and train the same as any other Guard members. In my case, working on the Nike missile site meant we were part of the USA’ air defense system along with the active Army. When I returned to aviation maintenance it was more like most Guard full-timers—keeping up aircraft that are used for training other Guard members. I eventually ended up as the shop foreman for a Guard aircraft maintenance shop located at Picatinny Arsenal. I retired from there in late 1992. I retired from both my full-time federal job and the National Guard. Toward the end of my Guard career I had g...Expand for more