I was an Intel puke. When I was assigned to the 7th I started out in the 107th MI Battalion and was the NCOIC of the Counter Intelligence Analysis Section. About half way thru my tour at Ord they ended up making me G2 Command and Control NCOIC (G2 Operations Sergeant) and assigned me to Div HHC.

I was in Government quarters out by the back gate (the one that went into Sea Side). That was good, it made it pretty close to get to Pep Boys . There was a weekly Cruise Night over in Salinas I’d usually make it to a couple of times a month (can’t remember the name of the drive in).

Loved the climate on Ord……not so much Hunter-Liggett in the summer . The drive up and down highway 1 was always neat.

Chances are if we were there at the same time you probably saw my cars running around (but I doubt you’d remember). Here is about the only picture I have from that time. It was taken at the back of my quarters….the guy in the background is my dad. He and Mom had come out from Illinois for a visit.


Pinto Vega L by M Patterson, on Flickr



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