Bullhunter
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Post by Bullhunter on Mar 16, 2014 17:06:25 GMT 9
Doing some cleaning and getting ready for rug shampoos next week and stumbled across some old documents of my Dad's. This is his selective service card from WWII. I have others and post more later. When I got to Air Force Basic training they took my card away. I would have liked to have kept it. He lost his life too early in 1988 at age 70 in a domestic dispute. My younger brother was arrested for involuntary manslaughter. I miss him greatly.
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Post by LBer1568 on Mar 17, 2014 4:15:37 GMT 9
Back in 1963 I lived in a farming community and the draft was very active. Most of my peers had either a farm or college deferment. I had a call from lady in the church who ran the Draft bureau saying I had a letter from the POTUS...a draft notice in the Registered mail. That was a Friday morning. I called my dad who called his brother in law who worked at Ft Hayes in Columbus. It was a recruiting station. I took the Military Placement tests on Friday afternoon, got my physical Sat and left for USAF Basic on Sunday afternoon. A week later I got called into Commander's office in Basic. I had a Registered letter. They demanded I open and show them. I laughed and explained it was my draft notice and I beat them and got into USAF. I had to turn in my draft card at Lackland AFB upon in-processing. Times have changed since then. Lorin
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Post by Bullhunter on Mar 17, 2014 15:45:34 GMT 9
My Dad's Cadet Booklet. He was in flight training and almost completed it until they started night flying. It was discovered he had a condition called (night depth perception.) He had problems landing at night. Was fine until it got dark. So he knew all about flying and had complete a large number of flying hours until the night vision problem. Likely a good thing as B-17 pilots did not fair too well early in the war. I might have not been born. So the Army Air Corp made him a flight sim instructor. back then they called them link trainers. Attachments:
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