Just because your career never put you on the "front lines", your service was still of vital importance to the overall operations, and for that . . . I THANK YOU! .
Yes, I'm a Viet Nam Era vet but I personally never got the chance to show my true worth. I enlisted in the U.S. Air Force 29 OCT 65 partly because I have always liked aircraft & armament, but mainly because I had just lost my wife & child, killed by a drunk driver, and there were just too many memories at home. I requested and got training as a Weapons Mechanic - Aircraft Armament Systems; but during training I developed a form of Heart Disease and was no longer eligible for military service and was given an Honorable Discharge on 13 May 66 .
I still wanted to do my part for my country, so my first job after I got out was to go to work in a Munitions Plant. I worked on the propellants for Sidewinder missiles; 3' long x 5" diameter Parachute Flares; and the prototype for the Foliage Penetrating Flare - for pilots downed in the jungles of Viet Nam - nicknamed "The Pocket Rocket".
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Today's Featured Article - Third Brush Generators - by Chris Pratt. While I love straightening sheet metal, cleaning, and painting old tractors, I use every excuse to avoid working on the on the electrics. I find the whole process sheer mystery. I have picked up and attempted to read every auto and farm electrics book with no improvement in the situation. They all seem to start with a chapter entitled "Theory of Electricity". After a few paragraphs I usually close the book and go back to banging out dents. A good friend and I were recently discussing our tractor electrical systems when he stated "I figure it all comes back to applying Ohms Law". At this point
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