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Show LOW: Not too much no. I didn t get into practice much. I did play ba k tball n y ar, or two. JAS: Great. And did you plan to go to college, or ... LOW: No, I didn't really plan on college. JAS: Okay. So what made you consider the military? LOW: Well, what happened - a lot of my friends, they got married and had children so they weren't drafted, but I was drafted in 1950 and I had two years in the service and I had a good two years, really. I was lucky I didn't get any real serious combat. And I went through the Army Engineers and then when I went to Korea I was with the "repo depot," a replacement, which meant repo depot, I called that- that's a replacement. And my MOS was electrician. By that time, I was a staff sergeant. JAS: Great. LOW: And I got over to Korea, why, I had several doies. I found out that I got put in from the engineers; I went into the 8206 Amphibious Training Command and they had lost their ships at the Inchon invasion and we had an [inaudible] command on the Japanese Sea where we unloaded liberties at the bay. We had an LST beach. And they needed an electrician because they didn't know how to hook up the generators or lay the grounds. So we got the wires to the signal- I guess I want to call it a signal operator, the radio station. And then, because they had been using a portable generator, we got that hooked up, got the generator in a central location. And then I ended up - of course the old timers were going home - so I ended up as a platoon sergeant. Rank was froze, so I never got promoted above staff sergeant. And I even, actually, after that, why I guess you might say the first thing that happened to me |
