From nobody Wed Oct 4 18:42:49 2006 Received: (from nobody@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k950gn4A020906 for ROOTS-M; Wed, 4 Oct 2006 18:42:49 -0600 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k94NDpYn011496 for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2006 17:13:51 -0600 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.41]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id k94NDm0m030988 for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2006 17:13:50 -0600 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k94NDmhb011466 for ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com; Wed, 4 Oct 2006 17:13:48 -0600 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k94NDmYn011455 for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2006 17:13:48 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id k94NDl3G030900 for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2006 17:13:47 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k94KVAFI020128 for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2006 16:31:10 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k94KVAF4020127 for roots-l@rootsweb.com; Wed, 4 Oct 2006 16:31:10 -0400 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k94KPxFI020065 for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2006 16:25:59 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k94N8PCv011349 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Wed, 4 Oct 2006 17:08:25 -0600 X-Envelope-From: paul_odlesr@yahoo.com Wed Oct 4 17:08:25 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k94N8PYn011338 for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2006 17:08:25 -0600 Received: from web60916.mail.yahoo.com (web60916.mail.yahoo.com [209.73.178.244]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id k94N8KN0026137 for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2006 17:08:21 -0600 Received: (qmail 32196 invoked by uid 60001); 4 Oct 2006 23:08:16 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=WohdqzkfvtOoRUFM6RBq64vmoH26DMS3YeC+J8lrIH1DM1g4v66Z+TC4arkkk+BNixBggh32iJwzP8qGgT4hkaQNIYRSdHD3j1uSLLSYsMOAg5I8cFeJVPfsZZUQU8MEtKI4Wuo7qCMCR0Ne4rWtVhNHU96VkArBVY6Qph1/2eo= ; Message-ID: <20061004230816.32194.qmail@web60916.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [66.141.90.216] by web60916.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 04 Oct 2006 16:08:16 PDT Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 16:08:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Paul Odle To: Roots Webb MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Spam-Score: 1.007 (*) BAYES_00,SUBJ_ALL_CAPS X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.57 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.57 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.57 on 192.168.65.34 X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by lists5.rootsweb.com id k94N8PCv011349 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by roots-l.rootsweb.com id k94KPxFI020065 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Subject: [ROOTS-L] NCO ACADEMY CLASS 1956-6 NCO Academy Class 1956-6 I do not remember anything about going to the NCO ACADEMY CLASS 56-6. That was 50 years ago this month. The Class started 15, Oct. 1956 and ended 29 Oct. 1956. The place was Vance Air Force Base, Enid, and Garfield County, Oklahoma. I remember all of the married men like myself had to move back to the Academy on Base. I do remember how excited I was when I finally got promoted to S/Sgt from A 1/c. S/Sgt. Commanded and demanded a lot more respect from all those below and above that rank. It meant that you could join the Prestigious NCO CLUB. I felt so proud! I was a member of the 3575th Medical Wing. I had also graduated from Physicians Assistance School. That was back in the days when no one had ever heard of PA¡¯S. I had never heard of it until I was chosen to attend that school. I went to the NCO ACADEMY with ORLAND OLANDISE, R. COONFIELD, LEON SOUTHERN, W.H. BRUNDAGE, C.W. McKinney, J.D. Little, W.W. Wilson, R.A. LAZANO, R. L. Fisher, C.L. Harris, J.E. McKinney, R.L. Andrews, W.L. Hammond, D. Gustafson, Long, O. Watson, and STANLEY PIONTEK from New Jersey. I remember that 19 May 1957 that My wife Helen Margaret Calivas and I were living at the very top of a hill in a two bedroom rent house at 601 Cedar Ave. in Enid, Oklahoma with our three little children Paul Jr. (Tyki), Douglas Michael, and Joyce Carol Odle. Living just west of me a half of a block was S/Sgt. Stanley Piontek of New Jersey with his wife and children. I believe it was on 17 May 1957 that Enid, Oklahoma had 15 inches of rain in one hour. Our House escaped the floodwaters with the exception of our basement. My friend S/Sgt. Stanley Pionteks front yard that sloped down hill was under 5 feet of water. The water was up to the top of his front porch. Stanley and his wife had to swim out of their rent house carrying their children. On May 17, 1957 I had gone to the Doctor because I had a splitting headache for days and they x-rayed my head and discovered that I had a freak bone growth off of my jawbone. I had an appointment with a civilian orthopedic surgeon Dr. Abernathy. DR. Abernathy¡¯s office was on South Van Buren not to far from Vance A.F. Base. It was going to be tricky finding away to his office. From our house on top of Cedar Street we drove two blocks East to 4th street then turn left driving north to Willow. Turning Left On Willow at CHARLIES BAR-B-Q and BEER GARDENS (my father-in-laws business) driving west to Cleveland Street. Turning Left South On Cleveland to Market Street (now Owen K. Garriott Blvd.) Cleveland Street from Market Street to Vance AF Base was under water. I was driving our brand new 1957 Green and white Ford Station Wagon. You could not tell where the two lane paved road was. I was on pain pills my station wagon is going through the flood waters side ways. I look down the road about a mile and what do I see another car turned north on Cleveland headed my way. I am unable to straighen my big old station wagon on the road. That guy has to be nuts can¡¯t he see me coming side ways down the road towards him? Some how we missed each other and when we got to the road headed parell with the base we turned left going east to Van Buren St. We turned left again going North to Dr. Abernathy¡¯s Office. He took a mallett and a Chissel and Chisseled that bone growth off that bone. Then they admitted me to the surgical Ward that I was in charge over. My pregnate wife had to drive that station wagon back home through floodwaters with our babies inside. (That had to be insane for her to be driving with those babies down flooded roads!) The next morning around 6 a.m. the nurse on duty had just given me a shot of 50 mgrs. Of Demorole for pain when they come and got me to come down to the OB Ward and Assist the Doctor in delivering my fouth baby a girl that we named NANCY LOUISE ODLE now ALEXANDER. My wife had driven herself through pitch-dark floodwaters while in labor to the base hospital to give birth. In those days we used a Trilene mask on mothers who were delivering babies. My wife was struggling on the OB table because I failed to turn on the oxygen to the trilene mask. Once I figured that out through my pain free demorole mind the delivery went off with out a hitch. The rest is history. Both my wife and I survived. When we got home and I was able to go down in our flooded basement I discovered my childhood collection of Picture post cards from all over the world and all 48 states was destroyed. Some of those picture post cards dated back before World War 1. My grandmother and all her elderly neighbor ladies back in Yukon, Oklahoma had dug through their old Metal rusted trunks looking for Post cards to give me for my collection. All my childhood pictures that I took with mom¡¯s old box camera that use 116 film were ruined. But our little family was safe at home on Cedar Street. My address in Enid was 601 Cedar and my Grandmother Odle¡¯s address in Yukon, Oklahoma where I grew up was 601 Cedar Street. By Paul L.Odle, Sr. Lawton/Fort Sill Veterans Center P.O. Box 849 Lawton, Oklahoma 73502 1-580-354-3287 --------------------------------- Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. Make PC-to-Phone Calls to the US (and 30+ countries) for 2¢/min or less.