-retired by merger - Info Sys Mgr
-retired: computer instructor - Manchester Comm College
-CT Nntl Guard - Military Funerals VSO unit
-caregiver, wife has FTD
Other Comments:
MCL 781 Life Member, New Britain CT - Honors Detail team [grave side rifle salutes] M1 Garands - Wake Detail team [& casket ceremony] ... [2007-2022= 703 funerals; 201 wakes] - handling all services [mostly Marine Veterans] - area = north Central Connecticut, dispatched by CT Nntl Guard. Scholarship Chr; Budget Cmte; Audit Cmte; WEB Sgt ... [discontuined some due to wife's illness].
Base, Station or City Camp Foster Data Center/Okinawa
State/Country Japan
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MCB Camp Foster H&S Co Bn, Marine Corps Installations Pacific (MCIPAC) Details
Camp Foster, formerly known as Camp Zukeran is a United States Marine Corps camp located in Ginowan City with portions overlapping into Okinawa City, Chatan town and Kitanakagusuku village in the Japanese prefecture of Okinawa Island. It is part of the Marine Corps Base Camp Smedley D. Butler complex. It houses the headquarters of Marine Corps Base Butler, Marine Corps Installations Pacific and the Okinawa Area Field Office of United States Forces Japan. It was named after the Medal of Honor recipient PFC William A. Foster.
Among its amenities are a large exchange with an adjacent food court, bowling alley, skate park, performing arts center and movie theater. The base operates three schools: Zukeran and Killin elementary schools and Kubasaki High School. The base's housing units include Kishaba, Chatan, Futenma, Plaza and Sada.
Best Friends roommates NCO/SS barracks - Shelby Rooney; George Lawson
Best Moment Tour of Orion Brewery
Worst Moment picking on the Green Beret School, stealth not good due to imbibing at the NCO club
Other Memories -smashing acomputer tape case while demonstrating to 3 Taiwanese Generals, and my CO conducting the tour. -immediately becoming shift supervisor after my supervisor [Sgt] destroyed 5 disk drives and 4 disks. -touring Okinawa backlands with Lawson and Rooney [who had HS Japanese], but would only speak it after a few....we bought him a FEW!
