My Experience with Military Intelligence Was Over 50 Years Ago,

[MineralMan]

17. Yeah, we took it all pretty seriously.

I still communicate with some people who were at the base in Turkey where I was stationed, and elsewhere. That's about the only time that I chat about what we were doing, but even then it's all pretty general conversation, rather than details. More about the experience than the work.

I've never been completely sure what the value was of what I was doing. I suppose it was all of some use, but it's hard to define, really.

I was low-level person, to say the least, but smart enough to figure out a good deal about it, by inference. I also had a unique and unusual skill that got me moved around where that skill was needed, so I learned from that, too. It was interesting, for sure, but not interesting enough for me to make a career of it. I'm not career military or intelligence material, I think.