Robin Ross:  

Life I was born September 18, 1942, and lived at 129 Portugal Cove Road in St. John's. I attended The Model School from September, 1947 to June, 1958. I enrolled as an officer candidate in the RCAF when I turned 17, and commenced training at RCAF Centralia on February 5th, 1960. I graduated from the Nav. school at RCAF Winnipeg in April of 1961. The RCAF then sent me to their survival school for winter bush survival at Hinton, Alberta, and then Arctic survival at Resolute Bay. I was then posted to RCAF Summerside, P.E.I. at the anti-submarine warfare school. Fortunately I contracted acute appendicitis before I finished this school, and after 10 days in Prince County hospital and 3 weeks on sick leave I was re-posted to 121 Search & Rescue Squadron at RCAF Sea Island (Vancouver). In 1964 we moved the squadron to RCAF Comox on Vancouver Island. I elected to leave the air force in August of 1966 rather than wear a "green" uniform. During my time in the air force I was fortunate to have the opportunity to travel to many places - including a memorable around-the-world trip that took 90 days in 1964 that covered 36,000 miles, and that included stops in Hawaii, Wake Island, Guam, Okinawa, the Phillipines, Japan, Singapore, Penang, Bangkok, Hong Kong, the island of Gan, Barhain, Cyprus, England, a...Expand for more