Post by jerryfmcompushaft on Sept 1, 2012 10:29:31 GMT -5
SOUTHWEST ASIA -- Master Sgt. John Anderson likes The Beatles. However, unlike most who serve in today's military, Anderson remembers The Beatles from his youth.
"Yeah, I've had a 'Long and Winding Road'," the 58-year-old Connecticut Air National Guard member mused recently about his military career -- and the group's final No. 1 hit in 1970. "I used to watch the Ed Sullivan Show (where the band made its American TV debut in 1964) all the time."
Anderson is deployed as a heating, ventilation and air conditioning NCO in charge for the 727th Expeditionary Air Control Squadron, which is part of the 380th Air Expeditionary Wing here. He is closing in on a 20-year military career and will be forced to retire at age 60 in early 2014.
His 20 years of service began with two years of active duty, starting in 1972. Eight years in the Guard followed. And then, remarkably, a 21-year interruption in service before returning to the Guard in Read about the rest of his career
"Yeah, I've had a 'Long and Winding Road'," the 58-year-old Connecticut Air National Guard member mused recently about his military career -- and the group's final No. 1 hit in 1970. "I used to watch the Ed Sullivan Show (where the band made its American TV debut in 1964) all the time."
Anderson is deployed as a heating, ventilation and air conditioning NCO in charge for the 727th Expeditionary Air Control Squadron, which is part of the 380th Air Expeditionary Wing here. He is closing in on a 20-year military career and will be forced to retire at age 60 in early 2014.
His 20 years of service began with two years of active duty, starting in 1972. Eight years in the Guard followed. And then, remarkably, a 21-year interruption in service before returning to the Guard in Read about the rest of his career
Or did you simply point this out as an observation without comment?
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