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Show EDWARD G. LUEDERS February 1, 2000 friend who was on the testing board there, a friend who had mutual friends from Hanov r College, so I'd already made contact with him. He told me that he looked it up and found out that I took the second highest score on that test that they'd ever had at Camp Grant. So, I was slated for, eventually, for radio operator school. This went with me on my record down to Keesler Field, Mississippi, where I had my basic training in the Air Force. I was there for a good while, because during my period there I got involved in the radio program that was airing from Keesler Field out of WWL (I think are the call letters) in New Orleans. It was a weekly radio program called "Free for All" that the people on the base, special services on the base, were doing that was broadcast network-wide in the United States. Well, not network. It was just WWL, which was a Clear Channel station, and you could get as far away as Chicago, where my parents could hear me. In any case, I got connected with that, and through that I was made permanent party, as it was called, at Keesler Field, as a so-called Special Service Sergeant, assigned to a training unit. Keesler Field was training mechanics, airplane mechanics. WIN: So you were a sergeant then? EDW: I wasn't. That was the designation of the TO table of organization for the position. I was still a private. I became a PFC in the process of getting this assignment, which was easy! I didn't do anything but look after some of the recreation, working for some of the recreation officers of the unit. But I stayed on, instead of being sent directly to radio operator school, after my basic training there. Because I had, in the interim, during basic training, had been made permanent party at the request of the base special 22 |
