40 Years Ago Today...Where Were You ?

[Booger Bill]

A Lockheed Aircraft company guard at Plant 42, Palmdale California. 1965 to 2,000. 1965 to 1969 at the Burbank plant. It`s gone.

[Old Savage]

Chiropractic school, just got engaged.

[snowyowl]

When off duty at Ft Lewis I was over at North Fort Lewis helping the Red Cross the whole month of May 1975 helping with the South Vietnamese orphans that just arrived and kept coming daily. April and May of 1975 has been on my mind of recent.

[new pig hunter]

Because his story is so incredible, I'm gonna add a "40 years ago" story on behalf of a good pal of mine who isn't a levergunner.

40 years ago, he was an 11-yr-old kid in Saigon. Yep, he is VN by birth & nationality. On that April 1975 day in Saigon he had his 2-yr-old sister on his back as his family boarded a small boat, along with many other escaping VN's. They floated down to the South China Sea and got picked up & put aboard a Navy ship. They eventually ended up in the USA.
These days, he has a Ph.D in computer engineering and is a Captain in the U.S. Navy.

Cheers,

Carl

[roughcreek]

Electronic Technician with VAQ-137 (EA6B PROWLER) on the USS ENTERPRISE off the coast of Vietnam

[trapper45]

Flying around, passing gas -- from a KC-135.

[Bullard4075]

Working as a Scuba Diving instructor in Daytona Beach and Key West Florida. Six months later
entered the Air Force.

[2X22]

Sophomore in High School.

My wife to be was a freshman.

[Lastmohecken]

I would have been looking forward to Saturday night at the Drive-In, with my girlfriend, in my new 1975 F250 four wheel drive pickup and not a serious care in the world. Life was great. Sometimes I wish I could go back and start again from there.

[junkbug]

I was in the last month of 4th grade.

[Mike Armstrong]

Trying to teach college students how to write a simple report at Univ. of Idaho and wondering what my next career would be. (Turns out it was teaching engineers, management types, and bean counters how to write complex reports more simply....so they could understand each other).

[C. Cash]

I would have been a young boy playing around in the desert near Mesa, AZ or hanging out at Falcon Field or Chandler Airport waiting for the Old Man to get done flying so I could go home and play around in the desert some more. On weekends, we shot a good bit out towards the Superstitions. That was some serious fun and a gun nut was born.

[Paladin]

Ft Hood TX, 8th Engineer Bn, 1st Cav Div, waiting for permanent orders for the transfer to EOD after TDY to the unit next to the base ball field and bowling alley.