Hey Ya'll

Guess I'll make a quick post just to say hi and follow up on a couple of items. Like Michelle said, I spend a lot of time travelling for my job, mostly to the DC area, but occasionally other parts of the country (Silicon Valley, Boston, Omaha) as well. So, if you're working in the Gov't or defense industry, you never know when we might meet again.

I ran into some of the following folks over the past few years:

• Kris Jones (Tucker) is married and now lives in Central Florida. I ran into her back in '90 when I went to NCO Academy at Keesler and again when I attended BCOT in '93.
  
• John Glomski. I saw him when I was at Lowry in '94 and heard later that he was a Chief at Fairchild. If anyone wants to try to get in contact with him, please let me know and I'll see if any of my old contacts at Buckley AFB know how to reach him.
  
• Mitch Massey (used to run the Comm Ctr @ Spang) took over the shop I worked at in the Pentagon shortly before I moved on to a new job in '90. I ran into him occasionally for a year or so before I left the Pentagon for Bolling AFB. He was a Chief at the time.
• Burt Minor tells me that Ron Young is a retired chief living in Alabama -- I think somewhere near Montgomery.
  

Anyway, great to hear where everyone is nowadays. One question that keeps cropping up is: "Whatever happened to the "B.S. Book??" Anyone have any ideas? Could it be:

• Unceremoniously burned by some uptight NCOIC or OIC after all of us left?
• In an evidence locker in the JAG's office at Spang?
• Being held by someone who hopes to use it for blackmail fodder in the event any of us ever decide to run for public office?
  
• Or (most likely), still in the bottom of a filing cabinet somewhere in the Data Center at Spang?
  

Discuss, and enjoy!

Earl & Michelle

After Spang, Earl and I were assigned to the Pentagon where we remained for about six years. While we were there, we had a few different jobs and were lucky enough to eventually land ones where we picked up some valuable experience. Both Elvis and Keith wound up at the Pentagon, so we got to see them once more.

During this time, we finished our degrees. Then Earl went to OTS and I separated. When he finished his training, Earl was assigned to Lowry and we've been in Colorado ever since. He was able to string together three assignments within the state (from Lowery to Peterson then to Buckley).

I've had half a dozen jobs since separating, but always as a system administrator. Right before the big crash of 2000, I took a job with a dot com startup (yikes). Somehow, my company survived the implosion. Around this same time, Earl came up for his last assignment which was back where he started -- Offutt.

We knew we wouldn’t want to stay in Nebraska after Earl's assignment and didn't want to leave our house. I was also afraid of walking away from my job at a time when unemployment was so high. In the end, Earl went to Offutt while I stayed behind. For the next two years, he managed to come home every couple of months. Just as soon as he'd put in enough time, he retired and came home for good or so we thought.

Earl took a job as a consultant with Oracle and has been traveling quite a bit. But, he really enjoys what he does and is content for the time being.

We love living in Colorado and will probably stay put. We have a couple of very active dogs who we take hiking and camping as much as possible. Earl has dabbled with home brewing and my hobby is photography. All our family is still back east and we make it back once or twice a year. Kim lives close to my dad’s family, Keith near one sister, and Mark near the other. We’ve gotten to see both Kim and Keith during the last few years and hope to see Mark later this year.

We’ve also enjoyed catching up with everyone. Yesterday I mailed notes to a dozen folks who I don’t have e-mail addresses for. So stay tuned as I’m sure we’ll be hearing from some of them soon.

Welcome

Twenty years ago -- the mid 80s. What a fun time it was. Stationed at a small base in West Germany together, we misspent a few years of our youth.

We thought this blog might be an effective way to reconnect with everyone. To get started, we're hoping you'll post a few paragraphs or sentences about what you've been doing in the intervening years.

Although not everyone has an e-mail addess, here is the full list of those we've managed to track down:

Earl & Michelle Bradshaw
Tom Castilleja
Rick Chiavacci
Lonny Corbin
Chuck & Danni Crews
Becky Doyle
Matt Gilham
Bob Grafton
Elvis Hamblin
Lisa Hemenway
Denise Hunter
Don McKinley
Frank Miller
Burt & Judy Minor
Nate Nesbitt
Michelle Niemitalo
Pat & Liz Ottinger
Mark Pelkey
Dave Polk
Kim Powell
Gary Pryor
Bill Reardon
Keith Scarbeau
Andy & Donna Smith
Kris Tucker
Dave VanSickle
Doug Vay
Gary Whitten
Ilona Wolferst
Susan Woodruff

There are a few who are still missing:

Bobby Blair
John Glomski
Henry Karpel
John LaJoie
Robert Richert
Perry Smith
Ron Young