1960-1961

Both  Gib and Hartley rcd me for a  one day week Temp  So Alameda Warm Springs  Elem to keep the music in  ciricum. The  Huge  GM plant  was  about complete , now Tesla plant . Next  year  200  homes  built out the back door and  tax base zoomed. Next the  sisters  at  Holy Ghost  Elem Washington   Township needed a teacher   another  half   day to use the instruments taken  at  auction off closed AF Base in the county. So I got say you look like a trumpet and hand out Music  Man style. Was Fri AM and drive up Bay Shore for PM session. Best and  only real job  not part time shoe  sales on commission. Set to grad 2st  summer  session  and got  draft to  induct on Friday before. I begged off for next call up and had  auditioned at  Ft Ord and  Hamilton AFB either  2 or 4 years but USAF also qualified   for Officer  Training and flight school so chose  USAF and after Basic  never  played an official toot.  In  ’73 I did audition for  Asst Dir USAFE  Band and was accepted by a friend I’d have beers with in Weisbaden. USAF  Band School decided I’d never   graduated  so could not possibly  direct  show tunes at   Kirmis bandstands  tho any  MSsgt  could and did.  Glen Miller eat yo heart  put! Needed a job to complete adopt  son another year so became  Admin O (adjutant) for F-4C maintenance  sqdn awhile. Then Air Field  Manager  at  USAF Nuke Base. 10000 ft runway and base ops on hand  rcpt.  Then home and out on  combat  disability in  ’77i n Texas since. The un-short  very  happy  life… Don I Phillips, Capt, USAF. Then along  came idea of gold mines, why not?

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