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(17,493 posts)My first year involved basic training and an education in electronic. I then became an electronics instructor for a year. When the demand for electronic technicians dropped I was sent to Massachusetts to work on radio communications gear aboard radar picket aircraft that flew over the Atlantic Ocean. These aircraft were unarmed.
I fired an M16 assault rifle in basic training and once a year qualified on the range with an M1 carbine.
I repaired and tuned a lot of radios including some from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
My bother in law was a helicopter crew chief. After a tour of duty in Vietnam he returned stateside and his helicopter was sent to Mississippi to help in the recovery from Hurricane Camile.
The guy who rented an apartment below mine on Cape Cod was a bosun's mate on a cutter and spent much of his time rescuing people in trouble on the ocean.