As
I write this, I am 75-years-old, having been born in 1946 in Kewanee,
Illinois to William Hugh McElhiney and Mary Ruth Crouse. I
lived
in Illinois until I was almost 5-years-old and then my family (Thomas
Edward Strode VII, Mary Ruth Strode, Michael Lee McElhiney and Lawrence
George McElhiney) moved to Eugene Oregon. We were there for a
year and then moved to Dayton, Washington. I went to Dayton
Elementary School for 8 grades and then entered Dayton High School in
1962. During the remainder of the year, I attended Marshall
High
School and Franklin High School in Portland, Oregon and finally
Evergreen High School in Vancouver, Washington.
After
graduating from high school, I attended Milwaukee School of Engineering
for one session and then enlisted in the US Air Force in January of
1966. I was stationed first at Lackland Air Force Base, TX
for a
few months and then Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi, Mississippi for
most of the remainder of that year. In December, I was sent
to
Europe for my assignment. I was in Camp Guynemer near
Fontainebleau, France for a few weeks and then transferred to Baraque de
Fraiture, Belgium for a week. (This was to be my original
assignment) My orders were changed so that I was sent to
Maastricht, The Netherlands for the remainder of my 36-month tour of
duty.
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