40 Years Ago Today...Where Were You ?

PaperPatch · Post by **PaperPatch** » Fri May 01, 2015 5:26 am

40 years ago today, I picked up this issue at the Cubi Point chow hall. A few days later I was processing refugees. Doesn't seem that long ago....

jeepnik · Post by **jeepnik** » Fri May 01, 2015 11:59 am

Torejon AFB Spain. Five years before that, likely somewhere in the skies of SEA.

Won most of the battles, politicians surrendered.

41 Redhawk · Post by **41 Redhawk** » Fri May 01, 2015 12:03 pm

11th grade.

hfcable · Post by **hfcable** » Fri May 01, 2015 12:27 pm

was in the last year of medical school, doing an acting internship in family practice....really enjoyed that, and enjoyed that whole year.

jnyork · Post by **jnyork** » Fri May 01, 2015 3:51 pm

On TDY to Keflavik NAS, Iceland with EC-121's, keeping an eye on the Russian Bears on their way to and from Cuba.

missionary5155 · Post by **missionary5155** » Fri May 01, 2015 4:43 pm

Greetings
In Danville , ILL seriously adjusting. ETS'd in July 74 and was married in Jan 75.
Mike in Peru

claybob86 · Post by **claybob86** » Fri May 01, 2015 4:48 pm

40 years ago

, I was 3 months away from heading over to Cubi Point for shore duty at the jet shop there.

TedH · Post by **TedH** » Fri May 01, 2015 5:20 pm

I was finishing up my year of Kindergarten.

hfcable · Post by **hfcable** » Fri May 01, 2015 5:50 pm

TedH wrote:I was finishing up my year of Kindergarten.

good grief ! that makes me feel........great I guess, that I am still alive and kicking and so old !

jeepnik · Post by **jeepnik** » Fri May 01, 2015 5:59 pm

TedH wrote:I was finishing up my year of Kindergarten.

Good heavens, I've got hats older than you are.

Stan in SC · Post by **Stan in SC** » Fri May 01, 2015 6:14 pm

I was working for a construction company which had a regional office in Atlanta,Ga.

Stan in SC

firefuzz · Post by **firefuzz** » Fri May 01, 2015 6:41 pm

Sixteen years old and having the time of my life riding rodeo's and chasing cowgirls. A much simpler, better world.

Rob

375hh1973 · Post by **375hh1973** » Fri May 01, 2015 7:06 pm

I was 1.

Barcelona Rick · Post by **Barcelona Rick** » Fri May 01, 2015 8:04 pm

I was at sea aboard the USS Bigelow DD942...

Griff · Post by **Griff** » Fri May 01, 2015 8:12 pm

After 4 years I was entering my 1st year of marriage... Had been home for 4 months, 11 days, and attending college.

walks with gun · Post by **walks with gun** » Fri May 01, 2015 8:28 pm

I can't even remember if I just went to the bathroom.

Merle · Post by **Merle** » Fri May 01, 2015 9:11 pm

Fussing & fuming at the pics on my living room TV.....

shane-vs-wilson · Post by **shane-vs-wilson** » Fri May 01, 2015 9:47 pm

I left Nam in Oct. 73. I worked 3 1/2 yrs. as civilian DOD employee. Worked Mechanic Cobra AH-1G Gunship Battle Damage Teams. Traveled all around I and II Core sites. Where ever needed. When Saigon fell, I was working Bell Helicopter Inc. I was in Esfahan, Iran. While there worked AH-1J Cobra Gunships. I miss those times in the 70's. Lot's history there, that I lived. I always muse that I closed 4 countries in that time!!! At 1 time I could not go back to them. Nam, Cambodia, Laos, and Iran. I miss Cobra Gunships, 1 fine Aircraft!!!

Daisyman · Post by **Daisyman** » Fri May 01, 2015 10:22 pm

Working in a factory running a lathe.

vancelw · Post by **vancelw** » Sat May 02, 2015 12:39 am

Living in that Hell commonly called Nebraska, surrounded by Minutemen missiles that Boeing planted all around the place.
I don't remember May 1, 1975 specifically, but I was in the short rows of 5th grade. I thought I remembered watching the POWS come home about that time, but maybe I was seeing re-aired footage triggered by Saigon surrendering. War was on the nightly news every single night, so it just seemed normal and I didn't pay a lot of attention to it at that age. Any movie that wasn't a western was a war movie and I couldn't have told you Vietnam from WW II from WW I. But I was very aware that we had nukes planted all around us and the centerpiece of our city park was a full sized missile.

claybob86 · Post by **claybob86** » Sat May 02, 2015 1:20 am

Barcelona Rick wrote:I was at sea aboard the USS Bigelow DD942...

A REAL sailor!

FWiedner · Post by **FWiedner** » Sat May 02, 2015 4:10 am

I was in the last months of my Junior year in high school.

old06 · Post by **old06** » Sat May 02, 2015 6:00 am

Barksdale AFB Louisiana assigned to the 2nd Civil Engineering Squadron

Griff · Post by **Griff** » Sat May 02, 2015 9:20 am

claybob86 wrote:
Barcelona Rick wrote:I was at sea aboard the USS Bigelow DD942...
A REAL sailor!

I was 4-½ mos. home from 2 years aboard the USS Somers, DDG-34, formerly DD946! Tin Can sailors, closest thing the modern Navy has to the iron men in wooden ships.

Post by **Ysabel Kid** » Sat May 02, 2015 11:32 am

10 years old looking forward to my birthday. Can't remember what specifically I wanted, but I bet it was a gun!

mikld · Post by **mikld** » Sat May 02, 2015 11:38 am

I was prolly drunk and hanging around Manhattan Beach, CA, on the Strand looking at the girls...

GoatGuy · Post by **GoatGuy** » Sat May 02, 2015 11:54 am

My military duty was some 8 years behind me. On that date in 1975, I had just gotten remarried, relocated to Roswell, NM and adjusting to the experience of new family, new job and new environs. It was a trying, yet exhilarating time for sure. Yeah, time does fly.

jeepnik · Post by **jeepnik** » Sat May 02, 2015 12:18 pm

mikld wrote:I was prolly drunk and hanging around Manhattan Beach, CA, on the Strand looking at the girls...

Having spend more than a few hours on the Strand, I will not ask what other "intoxicants" were being used.

GonnePhishin · Post by **GonnePhishin** » Sat May 02, 2015 12:34 pm

Gettin' ready to gradulate frum college

Pete44ru · Post by **Pete44ru** » Sat May 02, 2015 8:34 pm

.

40 years ago from today, my wife & I were getting ready to celebrate our 10th wedding anniversary.

Today, we're getting ready for our Golden Anniversary (50th). .

Our secret: On our honeymoon, I took her on a long tour of Europe (this year I'll go back & get her.

).

.

Ray Newman · Post by **Ray Newman** » Sat May 02, 2015 9:41 pm

At the time, twenty-four years old, community college sophomore, utilizing vocational rehabilitation program under the GI bill.

Sometimes that all seems like yesterday, other times I need to think hard about it all to remember....

RIHMFIRE · Post by **RIHMFIRE** » Sat May 02, 2015 10:28 pm

most likely on a soccer field in Brewster NY

2ndovc · Post by **2ndovc** » Sun May 03, 2015 6:46 am

TedH wrote:I was finishing up my year of Kindergarten.

Same here..

jb

Streetstar · Post by **Streetstar** » Sun May 03, 2015 10:34 am

3 1/2 years old ---- I'm sure i was just irritating my mom and dad at that point in life

Summit 512 · Post by **Summit 512** » Mon May 04, 2015 2:59 pm

I was working in a ply wood plant in Quesnel British Columbia Canada

TedH · Post by **TedH** » Mon May 04, 2015 3:13 pm

Pete44ru wrote:.

Our secret: On our honeymoon, I took her on a long tour of Europe (this year I'll go back & get her. ).

.

.45colt · Post by **.45colt** » Mon May 04, 2015 3:18 pm

I was working in a meat cooler, part of the fun we had each week was breaking and boning 40 cattle, working like dogs, getting paid scraps. if I only knew then what I know now.

.

Blaine · Post by **Blaine** » Mon May 04, 2015 3:29 pm

About 3 years into my first hitch. ....we were all ready to slap the Pelosi out of a commie congress.

JohndeFresno · Post by **JohndeFresno** » Mon May 04, 2015 5:00 pm

Like Griff, 1st year of marriage - still blessed with the beauty!

Had finished VN tour in '67 (ASA, attached 11th Armored Cavalry Regt and elsewhere), served another year stateside, then shortly later put on a deputy's badge; met my bride when she worked in the courts. I was pulling bailiff duty at the time.

Leverluver · Post by **Leverluver** » Mon May 04, 2015 5:23 pm

Working in a refinery in Denver making gasoline so we could soon (Nov 73) all be screeming down the interstates at a whopping 55mph

Old Time Hunter · Post by **Old Time Hunter** » Mon May 04, 2015 6:44 pm

Let me see...Thursday, May 1, 1975...full load of classes in the second semester of my Junior year at the University, followed by ROTC until 8PM (remember the "what is going to happen now" from the entire class to the Commander), made it home around 9PM and instead of getting a couple of hours nap, tried to answer my wife's "what now" questions. Then went to my third shift job in the can plant...Friday, first class did not start until 10AM...so I managed a couple of hours of sleep before class...still did not receive any "what now" answers.

Until...end of semester and anyone that wanted to get out of ROTC could with no strings attached. They said that not all of us would be needed.

The best friend, I had growing up, had given his life for nothing on September 22nd, 1973...people forget that '72-'73 that we were still getting killed over there.

new pig hunter · Post by **new pig hunter** » Mon May 04, 2015 6:47 pm

40 years ago:
1) had been on active duty in the Navy for only 9 months.
2) living on a ship at the 32nd St Naval Station in San Diego.
3) had owned my brand-new car for only 5 months.

Cheers,

Carl

p.s. 40 years later, I'm still driving the same car.

JohndeFresno · Post by **JohndeFresno** » Mon May 04, 2015 7:26 pm

new pig hunter wrote:... p.s. 40 years later, I'm still driving the same car.

Wow - you and Jack Benny!

Young 'uns - forget it - you wouldn't get the joke...

vancelw · Post by **vancelw** » Mon May 04, 2015 10:20 pm

new pig hunter wrote: p.s. 40 years later, I'm still driving the same car.

Well??? Since you won't say, are we to assume a 1975 AMC Pacer?

Or maybe something a little less sporty...like a Vega wagon with wood decal panels?

new pig hunter · Post by **new pig hunter** » Tue May 12, 2015 12:58 am

you guys are funny .....

it's a 1974 BMW 2002tii ......

Cheers,

Carl

roundup · Post by **roundup** » Tue May 12, 2015 1:48 am

Been living in Pendleton, Oregon for five months. Looking forward to my 39th birthday on the 15th. Hadn't met my third wife yet (three more years). Been married 37 years. I think it will work out. Been out of the military at that time 17 years.

Ji in Hawaii · Post by **Ji in Hawaii** » Tue May 12, 2015 7:04 am

My Freshman year of high school just a month more before summer vacation!

Blaine · Post by **Blaine** » Tue May 12, 2015 8:42 am

new pig hunter wrote:you guys are funny .....

it's a 1974 BMW 2002tii ......

Cheers,

Carl

Beautiful!

JohndeFresno · Post by **JohndeFresno** » Tue May 12, 2015 11:11 am

Looks like you really know how to take care of your stuff, Blaine!

vancelw · Post by **vancelw** » Tue May 12, 2015 12:02 pm

new pig hunter wrote:you guys are funny .....

it's a 1974 BMW 2002tii ......

Cheers,

Carl

Very nice. A sweet little ride.