[K6NCG] Celebrate!

[Dave Sublette]

I posted this on my facebook page.  I also wanted to share it with you.

57 years ago last week, May 3, 1963, I graduated from the U.S. Navy's
Electronic Technician 'A" school. It was an intense, 38 week, 8 hours per
day school on everything electronic. I graduated first in my class. That
sounds like bragging, and I suppose it is, to some extent. But as a result,
I was the only one of the 138 members in my graduating class that was
allowed to change my rate from Electronic Technician to Communication
Technician. It meant that, instead of long months at sea, I had shore duty
with the super secret Naval Security group. That was so important because
the week after I graduated, I married my sweetheart, Marian. We enjoyed a
two and a half year honeymoon in Japan. It was a magical time in our lives.
Today we celebrate our 57th wedding anniversary. I am Blessed, with a
capital BLESS.


And then I added this comment:


There were a few reasons I was able to finish ahead of 137 others. I had
two years of engineering college. Most of the others were fresh out of high
school and had never seen the advanced math or any of the equipment we were
learning. Second, I had been a ham radio operator for 5 years and had built
stuff similar to much of the equipment they were teaching us about. And
lastly, my chief competitor for class honors, another two year engineering
college guy, discovered beer in the enlisted mens club and decided he
didn't need to study quite so hard. He did me a real favor. :-)
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a great Day ----   Dave
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