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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: les snyder on November 11, 2019, 07:21:28 AM
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I just returned from our final reunion of the 6918th Security Squadron ... guys I served with some 49 years ago at Hakata, Japan... so for those of you I haven't met, THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE
Les Snyder
6918th Security Squadron, Hakata Air Station, Japan
6922nd Security Group, Clark AFB, Phillipines
with some time at
Joint Sobe Processing Center, Yomitan Okinawa
6924th Security Squadron, Ramsun Station, Thailand
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HHC G2 Section, 3rd Inf Division, Wurzburg Germany
for me....and over 50 years ago.
And Thanks to all Vets.
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40 years ago, Sept 23, 1979 discharged Honorably
NTC, Orlando, FL
US Naval Base, Truman Annex-FLEASWTRANCENLANT, Key west , FL
NAS/Naval Facility Keflavik, Iceland
US Naval Facility, Centerville Beach, CA
Happy Veterans's Day my brothers!
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Yes, thank all of you who are veterans. I wish my favorite veteran, my dad, was still around to talk to.
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U.S. Army 1979-1985. Never Again!
705th Maint. Battalion, 5th Infantry Div.
123rd Maint. Battalion, 1st Armored Div.
Thank you to all veterans and to those still serving. The only other veteran in my immediate family was my dad. When he was in the Coast Guard during WWII he had emergency surgery to have a kidney removed. They didn't want him after that, but he found a job at the Willow Run plant just south of Detroit. He met my mom there when they were riveting tail sections on B-24 Liberator bombers. Mr. and Mrs. Rosie the Riveter! Now it's home to the Yankee Air Force museum.
That's what I was able to figure out, unless there was another aircraft factory in the area where they did those jobs. I worked for GM at the Grand Blanc Tank Plant. I left the military life behind but couldn't escape the military heritage. From April 1942 to May 1945 it produced 11,385 M4 Sherman tanks, and roughly 1,190 M26 Pershing tanks from November 1944 to June 1945. Also 4,200 M48 Patton tanks from the early '50s to 1955. My mom worked at AC Spark Plug in Flint where an estimated 99+% of the .50 cal. M2 Brownings I ever saw were made. A high school friend's mom told me one day about her and the other ladies test firing them in the basement. Too bad both of those places were bulldozed and will soon be forgotten. Like POWs were by many people. :'(