3/20/2023 0 Comments Ames smart trash![]() When the fire broke out I was helping to take down a false bulkhead in the 211 division spaces (room 5 in building 42). ![]() I was on duty in the tunnel when it burned down. There had also been reports – scuttlebutt – that the walls where the vent pipe had been installed had been getting very warm when the incinerator was in use. A few days before the tunnel fire the incinerator had blown back and injured one man. The local company no longer collected material from the tunnel area. When we were looking through the trash we found some TS Kimbo material and confidential log books there! We immediately reported this to the duty officer, the trash was sealed, and command installed the incinerator and vented it up through an interior wall to the outside. This trash was routinely picked up by a local (Japanese owned) company for disposal. ![]() A few months earlier, while on a mid watch, another “M” brancher and I had gone “dumpster diving” in the trash outside the building because we had nothing else to do. The incinerator that caused the fire had been recently installed to burn confidential material. I am sorry I lost touch with everyone after I returned CONUS I didn’t realize, then, the importance of nurturing friendships. I worked with some great guys on the base and hung out with them and their wives it was sometimes hectic, running around on my motorcycle at all hours of the day and night. The base approved this – he could not afford to pay anyone to help him, so I was told I could work there for free, since I was not removing a job from the local economy. He could not afford to hire an assistant, so I worked in the restaurant during many of my off duty hours. I was introduced to a Japanese national who owned and operated a yakatori restaurant there. The best part of my duty in Japan was in Yokohama. ![]() I was discharged on Treasure Island, in May of 1967, as an E-5 CT “M”. I arrived at Kami Seya in early 1964 as an E-3, after going through ET “A” school at Treasure Island. My recruiter had told me that I would be trained as a nuclear technician and assigned to submarine duty, but he lied.Īfter I was sworn in I was told that since I required glasses I could never be assigned to submarine duty, and I was reassigned. I enlisted in the US Navy in May of 1963. ![]()
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