SOMETIMES EVENTS GAURENTEE LUCK - In 1964/65 my mother had devorced & still had 2 mouths to feed. I tryed to get a job but as I was 1A on the draft, employers just said, "Why Don't You Come Back in 4 years," You got good skills. Well that was some hint to join the service & after all it was just a little "Police Action" going on (at this time the US Army was breathing down my neck & I got a draft notice). So in April I joined the USAF. Upon completing basic trainning President Johnson decided on a build-up of forces & the Basic training center became flooded with new recrutes. I had made an agreement with my enlistment that I would be put in the electronics field. The USAF decided to place me in the Classified field of Cryptography which, ment it was a little difficult to place mE in harms way. In 1967 the Air Force decided to re-assign me to PAC-AFT (Pacific Theator, i.e. Viet Nam & surrounding areas). The assignment also included access to the National Security Agency's (NSA) special catagory clearance & information. In this capacity I was the first to receive information of the capture of the Pueblo by the North Koreans (HIGHLY CLASSIFIED). As such, & having had access to such highly classified, war particular information, I was not allowed to get to close to any war zone, In fact I had a travel & duty restriction for 2 years after I left this position. For the Fact that I was NSA I was purty much guarenteed servival of the Viet Nam conflict. - Rudy