[TwoTalons]

U.S.A.F. 1984 - 1992

Spent three years at Hellenikon Air Base near Athens, Greece from 1984 - 1987. I was there when we bombed the shit out of Qadhafi. That was also when the famous TWA hijacking occurred and when another TWA plane, 727 I think, was bombed shortly after takeoff from Athens Intl. I saw that plane come back and land with a gaping hole in the side. There were many other attacks on military personnel in Greece while I was there. Car bombings, night club bombings, assassinations, etc. Interesting times. I was a Security Specialist and carried around an M-16 with 240 rounds of the real ammo every day. When I returned to the States, I retrained into an electronics related career field. I spent the next five years at Kelly AFB, TX repairing crypto equipment. I worked on the IFF boxes that went on airplanes. During the gulf war, we used to get all the charred and crumpled remains back since all the crypto equipment had to be accounted for. Pretty sobering. I got recruited by a civilian branch of the government in 1992 and have been working for them ever since.