Kenneth Northington:  

Life Greetings, fellow Bulldogs! Sorry I couldn’t make it to the last reunion. I was living in Texas and my job didn’t allow me time to get away. So what have I been up to for the past eleven years? On September 7 1993, I arrived at Lackland Air Force Base (AFB) in San Antonio, Texas where I began Basic Training to become an enlisted airman in the United States Air Force. Originally, I was slated to be sent to Fairchild AFB, Washington to become a Global Survival Instructor. Survival instructors do things like teach interrogation techniques and train pilots how to escape, evade and survive in many different climates. On my last day of Basic Training the Air Force found that my aptitude lay in Electronic Intelligence because of my math and science scores on the ASVAB test. I guess I learned something from Mr. Saludis’s class other than how to check my eyelids. So, I left San Antonio for San Angelo, Texas where I received apprentice level training in Electronic Intelligence (or as my comrades call it, ELINT) at Goodfellow AFB. On completion of my training at Goodfellow AFB, I was transferred to Osan Air Base (AB), Republic of Korea. Osan is located about thirty to forty-five minutes south of Seoul. I spent a year at Osan as an operational ELINT analyst. While at Osan, I took some college courses offered at an overseas campus of the University of Maryland. After Korea, I came back to the states in March 1995 where I spent the next seven years at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio doing technical ELINT analysis at the National Air Intelligence Center (now the National Air and Space Intelligence Center). During my time at Wright-Patt, I did temporary duty at places like the National Security Agency and the Central Intelligence Agency. I have spent time in Huntingdon, England for training on my way to Adana, Turkey. I also spent some time at sea during a treaty mission and was lucky enough to port in Japan and Singapore. While in Japan, I visited Tokyo, Misawa, Yokohama and Yokosuka. Other places I have seen are Hong Kong and the lovely Pacific Ocean. My most notable temporary duty assignment was as the Chief of the EL...Expand for more