Fred Barkschat:  

Life After my family moved in 1969 (I had just finished 8th grade at Shanango), we lived just south of Cleveland Ohio for a year. Then our family moved to Fredericktown, Ohio in 1970, where I graduated at in 1973. I joined the Air Force in August 1973, and met & married my 1st wife in 1975 in Rome, NY. We had one daughter, Nicole, born in Aug. 1982. We were stationed at Griffiss AFB, Rome, NY: then Barksdale AFBin Shreveport/Bossier, LA (were my daughter was born at): then at Seymour Johnson AFB in Goldsboro, NC; then overseas to Spangdahlem Air Base in Germany (where I was divorced after 14 years of marriaged in 1989); then was stationed back to Barksdale AFB where I retired from in 1993. I worked on B-52, F-4 and F-16 aircraft during my 20 years with the Air Force. It was enjoyable experience which enable me to travel to places that I would have most likely never seen. I remarried in 1990 which ended in divorce in 1998. I own a home here in Shreveport, LA. I was working for the Po...Expand for more