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Decided to become a hippie and got drafted instead.

Went to Tolstoy Farm in Eastern Washington State and fell in love.
Then went to Ford Ord, etc. Soon after this picture, found out my girl was living with someone else.

Spent many years as a senior electronic test engineer, including 12 years at Hughes Aircraft, programming, designing and building automated test sets for testing communication satellites.

meflynn at cox dot net

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Korea, '68 & pers. story : 1st TAB, 25th Arty, Uijongbu, Korea, I Corps, from Jan 1968 to Mar. 1969 Use Style: Journal for best viewing. See upper right corner of window. TAB means Target Aquisition Battalion, or forward observers. We had no artillery I arrived at Camp Jackson the day after the Pueblo Incident. A group of 31 highly trained infiltrators also revealed themselves at the same time. The day before my arrival at Camp Jackson there was a firefight outside the gate with several Korean soldiers and police killed. (Camp Jackson had about 100 GIs but lots of equipment and Katusas) North Korea was coordinating these provocations with the Tet Offensive in Viet Nam, to draw off troops. The mission of the infiltrators was to behead the President of South Korea. Over 700 armed Commandos were sent into South Korea in 1968, according to a Congressional report. Our orders always were that we could not load our weapons unless we were fired at. The official theory is that the infiltrators are so skilled that they cannot fail to kill you if you spot them, so no point risking shooting innocent people. We were given mandatory classes to describe the superhuman feats of the infiltrators. Not even Rambo could do that stuff. There was immediate 6pm curfew for the country, passes were canceled and we needed to have rifles, helmets and flak jackets to leave the compound. This did not last long, but midnight curfew for the country was the rule for the rest of the year. All miltary personnell had to be back on base before midnight unless you were on leave (or were a permanent gate guard). No more than 40% of our unit could be on pass at any given time. The first sergeant at Charlie battery said I had the highest IQ in the battalion, including the Lt. Col. He asked if I could help with some serious problems with the supply room. He offered me temporary E5 rank (I was E2). I didn't think I could help that way and told him what he really needed to do, which he didn't expect. He followed my advice exactly and it turned out to be right on. Before it was over the original supply sergeant got busted down to private E-1. Getting the supply room squared away allowed our readiness level to go up so we could spend 4 months in the field doing useful work. My reward was to spend the last few months of my tour as the only permanent gate guard there had ever been at Camp Mermaid. I had 3 hours of duty every other day. No bed checks, no morning formation. I did not need a pass to leave and I was the only soldier in Korea not on leave who did not have to obey curfew and did not need to sleep on base.

Korea, '68 & pers. story

1st TAB, 25th Arty, Uijongbu, Korea, I Corps, from Jan 1968 to Mar. 19 ...

Updated: Oct 27, 2007 11:06am PDT

Los Alamos, WWII, Atom bomb project : Los Alamos, New Mexico during WWII, my parents met and got married. Clifford was a medic. He was also a certified welder. He was later attached to the MP company that guarded the Trinity site after the blast. If you recognize anything in these pictures, please let me know. All scenes are 1945 or 1946 To read the text with each picture, select "style: journal" ath the dropdown menu above.

Los Alamos, WWII, Atom bomb project

Los Alamos, New Mexico during WWII, my parents met and got married. ...

Updated: Feb 12, 2007 8:26pm PDT

Family -Flynn/Nickerson : Best seen using "journal" style. See pulldown menu at top right.

Family -Flynn/Nickerson

Best seen using "journal" style. See pulldown menu at top right.

Updated: May 16, 2007 11:23pm PDT

Lost Friends & Acquaintences :

Lost Friends & Acquaintences

Updated: Jan 29, 2007 10:49am PDT

Alviso, California : Alviso was the earliest port in California. The first capital of California was San Jose, San Jose was the largest town in the state and Alviso was the only port nearby. The first governor of California (Burnett) had his official residence here in Alviso on N First Street across from Grand while he was governor. In the 1840's, Alviso was known as Embarcadero de Santa Clara. The owner of the property does not want anyone to know where the governors' mansion was, so he obliterated the foundation and the line of trees that marked the entrance. After the governor resigned, the mansion was moved to San Jose and the site in San Jose is marked with a monument. The port of Alviso is shallow and ideal for small scale shipping but could not be scaled up, so San Francisco soon replaced Alviso as Californias' premier port. That probably led to the capital being moved North to Benicia and then to Sacramento. Before Alviso was annexed by San Jose, many boat builders used to live on or near their boats as they built their dreams. It was a place of much character. There is a ghost town to the East called Drawbridge, only acessible by railroad. Nowdays there is a federal cop watching the wetlands who will not let you walk along the tracks. Using the dropdown menu above for "style:", select "Journal" to read the text with each picture.

Alviso, California

Alviso was the earliest port in California. The first capital of Calif ...

Updated: Jun 17, 2007 6:02pm PDT

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