The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #150157   Message #3497320
Posted By: JohnInKansas
01-Apr-13 - 03:04 AM
Thread Name: Remember the - - - Akron?
Subject: RE: Remember the - - - Akron?
I never had occasion to work on/around the old military airships.

Submarines were the "new secret weapon" when got into my early career.

They never got me inside one of those $!#@%! things either.

I'm not sure there was much processing to my discharge papers. I got a message telling me to report to the CO's office. Somebody there said "Here." I took the sheet of paper they handed me, saluted, and went home to load up the car. (Yuma AZ was a good place to put behind anybody.)

Aberdeen had a nice (and BIG) museum, but mostly artillery from what I saw of it.

We did make a stop at the Smithsonian on one trip past there, since it was "on the way to Aberdeen;" but it's way too big to even pick something to look at if you can't spend a week or two.

John