Thursday… When you are rich!

 

 Our home, not much of a picture, but it was like a lot of Mill Houses back in Belmont, NC. an old comfortable 2 BR 1 bath.

 

So, for today:

All lives have taken many turns, some good, some not so good. That will continue until we are ‘covered up with flowers in the back of a black limousine’ as one song writer said.

After about 2 years on an Aircraft Carrier, I had a chance to re-enlist in the USN with a choice of duty stations. Back then that was unusual, normally you just received orders, it could be to another ship, shore duty or even what is called ‘Isolated duty’.  That is a duty station where there are no normal towns or civilization around. One of those is Adak, Alaska, an isolated area.

Those are considered ‘Sea Duty’ and count as your time at Sea.  GITMO (Guantanamo Bay) is another example for single sailors.  Married sailors can also go and after a waiting period they can bring their family down as housing come available. I still had sea duty facing me, so I chose GITMO. I went ahead, it was 3 months before housing was avaiable for 

Sherry was left in the States with two sons.  She had to take care of the paperwork along with shipping our household goods and the car. She handled it like a pro and came down to live.

(The boys enjoyed Moto Cross in GITMO)

Gitmo is a training base.  There is a small town atmosphere. The 1 gas station &  the few stores there closed down at  6PM or 9PM like years ago back home.

The government had a 10% savings plan. Sherry went to work at household goods shipping & receiving. We decided to put my monthly pay in savings and live off her salary, not hard to do on GITMO

At the end of nearly 4 years we had a LOT of money. LOL

We went to a furniture factory in Lenoir, NC. We bought some nice furniture. We also bought a piano (thinking the boys would learn to play) and the newest of TV’s . It had one of he first a remote controls. LOL today people would laugh at that. When you wanted to go to Channel 3 and were now watching  Chanel 6, you had to watch and wait as it clicked all the way around the dial to 3; but it was cool, No more getting up to change channels.  LOL

After doing all that, we were no longer rich. :-O. AND had more furniture than would fit comfortably in our military housing, which this time was in Albany, Georgia our next duty station.

Nite Shipslog

PS: OKay, I will cut out family history.  LOL