college and decided that it was time for me to enlist so i went home to my parents and i enlisted i listed in the airport air force for four years and i took a little bit different approach the draft was very popular back then but my draft number was three hundred and forty eight so it was a relevant to be honest with you but i thought it was a time that you know i really wasn't sure what i wanted to do and i thought military for your commitment to join the air force and spent four years  and i told them the air force and i told them why in my mind i thought that different going to commit for years to try to learn something that i could use when i get out and so i looked at jet engines it conditioning systems and fuel systems thinking that logan would be an opportunity after four years with that skill set oddly enough and didn't do any of that in the four years did you report where did you for somewhere or what did you know was in boston ok and we went for physicals and thing in that and th into various you know professional fields a f c s they call them and i got what some guy was talking about the cape kennedy and the aerospace into ballistic missiles and we're like you know arise as kids and at our age or up like this we're all thinking oh this is a great opportunity so we also you know i get my papers that i'm going to lowry air force base training and i'm a weapons mechanic for six ago that's kind of interesting so we get to prefer we had an instructor there mickey finn and he explained area of c so we spent the next six weeks wearing how to knew how to load nuclear weapons on b fifty two thousand how to load conventional weapons on b fifty two thousand and how to give us five days to go home so i came back to belmont and then reported to travesty of force base in california the seven of us one and right over to thailand we got processed in bangkok and then down to you to pull out of the air force base where i spent the next year pretty much loading bombs and b fifty two dollars they had a couple of small fighter jets but i merrily b fifty tuesday and we loaded bombs twelve hours a day two shifts you know morning you did twelve on twelve off twelve on twelve off one day off in between and it was just it was amazing the ordinance that was loaded on a daily basis to see those b fifty two dollars is take off and they sorties and then come back empty and then just load them back up again a little bit of on b fifty two a b fifty two carries one hundred and twenty eight thousand five hundred pound bombs and ninety six thousand seven hundred and fifty pound bombs and then they have rocket pods on them and was just day in day out i mean i just couldn't figure in the in the lighting of the skies it's amazing it's amazing but my job there st was preparing the bow arms to go onto a grid so would be putting the fuses in putting the  and i actually got hurt there and was made of act to attach a car with japan you know and they found nothing wrong sent me back and then two months later i ended up going to the philippines and having surgery in the philippines and then transferred back and like most of us i wanted to take advantage of the service i put in for consecutive overseas duty you know spain puerto rico and i ended up at plattsburgh air force base new york at that time we were working on you know to spokane washington for survival school but the injury that i had curried had operated on preventing me from pursuing that so i sent me back to plattsburgh and then i went back to thailand two more times  when i finished the plattsburgh air force base when i was up there i went back to cape cod community college took full advantage of the g i bill spent two years there actually met my wife at the college but then i went to suffolk university nights and started working at massport doing the steve dores payroll and then parlay that into working x mall company called printing computer doing their payables receive them and ended up in sales and i've been in software and hardware sales ever since my only regret was i wish i'd gone to a four year school right out of the service instead of doing the two and taking the break it's easy how you can work well but it's easy to justify things you know like you can justify when you went in the service you can justify go to two years  take a break but i the only thing i wish i had done it was a four year commitment and gone through the four years and instead of doing stuff like at night and then my career took off and i didn't really finish i think about nine credits short you know that was the only regret i enjoyed every minute of my time in the military made some great friends had to do it over and do it exactly the same way now i try to stay active i'm getting active in my new community and with the when i was active in reading there on i try to stay active and give back to the community when i can i applaud you for your work at the veterans who as always you know you know i feel about that i get more out of it than i give a no i think for me the time was right before your commitment you it when you're young and you don't have that vision of where you want to go that four years help me because when i came out i was you know dean's list better listener let's talk a better listener absorb things at a better appreciation for things and i think the four years in the military helped me do that i think i wish i could change i just mentioned to the young lady oh there that all of the veterans of all the wars came back to somewhat of a hero's welcome yeah except the vietnam era the protests the political unrest i mean it wasn't and now it's now that we're at ages where we should be taking care of me but there are other veterans from that area that need the attention i'm fortunate you know they have good medical benefits and feel healthy but a lot of people gave up a lot of their lives up there cape cod community college i know when i went back to bentley that fitting in was we were too interested fitting in anyway but we had our own place in the cafeteria or we all hung out everybody was just so so you know the kid but did you have any that are pretty much the same where you were i never got a grief from anybody because i'd like to be afraid to come up and say something but you know i think we had a group that were recently discharged there for the same reason of course we all had our army green jackets on and you know the old fatigues sure it's but no i never felt that at all at the college we just kind of blended in the only thing different was we were a little older you know i was four years older probably the most of the people at the community college and that age difference sometimes shows in your approach to things and i think people sense that but other than that to be in uniform to be recognized as a soldier because here was so long at the time you got off and you got a good you had a good tan and you had short hair and no matter what you were you were you know well the funny one was at the air force base we all this younger generation should look at it that way there's a lot to take away from it but this equally as much to give to it and i just think if we go to bed at night i feel good about what i did my family feels good about what i did and that's good for a lot of people in the early seventies used to drop off their resume literally i mean when they were applying for jobs or what have you if they were disability and so it's a different different atmosphere is correct but i think a lot of that is a result of the sustainment of iraq in iraq and all of this just built up to where people now have appreciation for the sacrifices men and women make when they surf now they broadcast for member member used to have the death count every day somebody killed and they'll be at no memorial when every time i go there it's just