After being medically retired from the Army in 1999 (four years during the VN period and then back on active duty in 1987 when i retired as a police chief) I was hired by the Veterans Benefit Adminstration, US Department of Zveterans Affairs as a veterans claims examiner (Veteran Service Rep) I worked my way up the ladder and in 2005, became the very first Military Document Specialist inm the nation.
Seeing the documents listed, I see Navy service (from the DA Form 66 Officer Assignment Record)from Jul 1963-Sep 1966. He then enlisted in the Army from May 1967 to May 1968 while he attended basic training and then assigned as a Warrant Officer Candidate in the Army aviation . On May 1.1968 he was discharged at the convenience of the government to accept appointment as a rotary wing aviator on May 2 and then assigned as an aviator to the 297th Aviation Company at Fort Riley, KS and then to Vietnam on March 5, 1969 and assigned to Company C, 158th Avn Bn, 101st Airborne(later Air Assault)He stayed with that unit until Oct 1969 when he was transferred to the 195th Avn Co. He remained with that unit (still in Vietnam) until April of 1970 when he was transferred to Troop A, 3rd Sqd 17th Cavalry in Vietnam.
He was released from active duty as an overseas returnee at Oakland Army Terminal on September 10, 1970.
This is the sum total of his active military and naval service. All of the rest of the time was in the Army Reserve assigned to the 2336th AvnCo in Southern California. He only has less than seven years total active duty.
After being medically retired from the Army in 1999 (four years during the VN period and then back on active duty in 1987 when i retired as a police chief) I was hired by the Veterans Benefit Adminstration, US Department of Zveterans Affairs as a veterans claims examiner (Veteran Service Rep) I worked my way up the ladder and in 2005, became the very first Military Document Specialist inm the nation.
Seeing the documents listed, I see Navy service (from the DA Form 66 Officer Assignment Record)from Jul 1963-Sep 1966. He then enlisted in the Army from May 1967 to May 1968 while he attended basic training and then assigned as a Warrant Officer Candidate in the Army aviation . On May 1.1968 he was discharged at the convenience of the government to accept appointment as a rotary wing aviator on May 2 and then assigned as an aviator to the 297th Aviation Company at Fort Riley, KS and then to Vietnam on March 5, 1969 and assigned to Company C, 158th Avn Bn, 101st Airborne(later Air Assault)He stayed with that unit until Oct 1969 when he was transferred to the 195th Avn Co. He remained with that unit (still in Vietnam) until April of 1970 when he was transferred to Troop A, 3rd Sqd 17th Cavalry in Vietnam.
He was released from active duty as an overseas returnee at Oakland Army Terminal on September 10, 1970.
This is the sum total of his active military and naval service. All of the rest of the time was in the Army Reserve assigned to the 2336th AvnCo in Southern California. He only has less than seven years total active duty.