I loved every minute of it ... but had it easy in my field. I was an electronics/electro-mechanical systems tech guy and my first assignment was at Vandenberg AFB, where we actually launched Minuteman missiles in test programs. So it was like enlisting straight into a NASA kinda thing. I was there for nine years, then did a year at a 'real' missile wing before I decided to take my skills over to a Minuteman contractor. I always say I lived a charmed life for someone who started out as a poor country boy - LOL. Just short of forty years in the same basic field working my way upwards for the AF, Rockwell International, and the Boeing. I had a blast - pun intended.
I loved every minute of it ... but had it easy in my field. I was an electronics/electro-mechanical systems tech guy and my first assignment was at Vandenberg AFB, where we actually launched Minuteman missiles in test programs. So it was like enlisting straight into a NASA kinda thing. I was there for nine years, then did a year at a 'real' missile wing before I decided to take my skills over to a Minuteman contractor. I always say I lived a charmed life for someone who started out as a poor country boy - LOL. Just short of forty years in the same basic field working my way upwards for the AF, Rockwell International, and the Boeing. I had a blast - pun intended.
SAC, cool experience. Was it good duty?