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I had a Lionel set as a kid but to my pappy it was a toy and we never did anything with it; by the time I was an adult I had lost complete and total interest in it.<BR><BR>Then, in May, 1962 the Air Force (read: SAC) sent me to Vandenburg AFB in California for a four week specialized computer maintenance training course - being 22 and still a little on the wild side I took along 4 weeks of partying money - and I did - then they extended (read: stranded) me for another three weeks to act as an observer for a missile shoot. Was out of partying money so got myself two cartons of cigarettes to tide me over for the three weeks and went by the exchange to get me some reading material. Picked up two or three pocket books and guess what else I bought at the newstand?<BR><BR>Don't remember the names of the pocket books; don't remember whether I ever even read them or not; do know that I read the July, '62 MR and RMC; read them - and read them - and read them. They are temporarily residing in a storage box in my train room while I go through a sorting and reorganization operation.<BR><BR>The AF ultimately cancelled one of the weeks of my extended TDY and ordered me home to my regular duty station in Washington state. Had I have known my TDY was only going to be two weeks in length I would probably have contented myself with the pocket books - and I probably wouldn't be up here on the forum right now.
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