Robert Mills:  

itioning systems and how to read the trouble codes of the cars or trucks.The students not only had class room time,but worked on cars or trucks that were brought into the shop. The students rebuild the complete engines,transmissions in these cars,that were not running when they were towed into the shop. I finished this course in 1982. I use the knowledge I learned from this course, to keep my own cars and trucks running.It also came in handy with the 1970 Plymouth Duster race car that I built, and drove at the local dragstrips on the weekends. Military I enlisted in the U.S.Coast Guard,in the fall of 1968,I had to wait until Jan. of 1969 to find out when I was going to bootcamp. I went to bootcamp in Feb of 69 at Cape May N.J.for 9 weeks of training in seamanship, close order drill,[marching] how to take orders and work together as a unit. Upon graduating,in April of 69, I got orders to report to the U.S.Coast Guard Cutter Confier, in Portsmouth,Va. This ship was a 180ft. ocean going bouytender.I worked in the engine room on the Diesel engines. The ship worked the upper Chesapeake Bay working aids to navagation,in the bay and the rivers that flowed into it. We also worked in the Altantic Ocean and the approcahes to the Chesapeake Bay.We also came to the rescue of a many wayward boater. Had a good time aboard this ship. I was transfer to the Coast Guard Base,Portsmouth in Jan of 1972, I stayed there until my enlistment was up in Feb of 1973.If I had to do over again, I would have made a career out of the Coast Guard for at least 30yr.