Military Vets?

[jerrys]

Hi Sean,
Kobe was a port used to access personnel from ships by harbor craft during the war. Ships did not enter.
Where are you now? You can read the cards?
Jerry

[jbsports33]

Thank you all for your service! this is a great topic for the holiday

Much of my family has served, but good old Dad told me to go to college that served in Korea and had one grandfather in WWI and one in WWII - not to mention just about all my uncles too! so I feel very blessed

I still ended up working for DOD projects much of my life and worked at a handful of military bases including Otis/MMR on Cape Cod and watched the 101st all the time flying in and out - shaking our work trailers. I also helped with the UXO cleanups and water treatment on the base and for other bases with similar issues. That is about all I can talk about it, as it can be "Top Secret" maybe ha ha, anyways interesting stuff. I always wanted to help out, if I did not serve, I wanted to at least work in civilian roll. I did meet some great people in the military from Cape Keyes in Augusta ME, Otis, Langley and many bases on the Pacific including Alaska. Currently I work for the Army Corp and it’s really good work! Buying and selling cards is fun too!

Jimmy

[seanofjapan]

Originally Posted by jerrys

Hi Sean,
Kobe was a port used to access personnel from ships by harbor craft during the war. Ships did not enter.
Where are you now? You can read the cards?
Jerry

Wow, that is interesting. The port is quite a bit different now from when you were there, they've built artificial islands and filled a lot of it in.

I live in Nagoya now, been in Japan for about 20 years so I can read the cards!

[jerrys]

I'm not sure who knows but ships were anchored a mile or two out to avoid another Pearl Harbor where they were easy targets for Japanese planes.

What would be the reason to build artificial islands? Are they populated?

We have a steam locomotive being restored here at the Florida Railroad Museum. The trains are not blue.

[Leon]

Here I am left with black glasses and that is my dear grandmother on the right RIP>..

1979 USMC boot camp MCRD....

[xplainer]

Air Force for 10 years.
461 = Ammo troop.
1982-1992.
Stationed in Europe for 8 years, Alamogordo New Mexico for last two years.
TDY to Wales, Scotland, Norway, Germany and Italy.
Deployed to Saudi during the first Gulf War with my F-15's from Holloman AFB.
Exited as E-5. 20MM crew chief.
Started new career in Corrections.
Still there now.....

[seanofjapan]

Originally Posted by jerrys

I'm not sure who knows but ships were anchored a mile or two out to avoid another Pearl Harbor where they were easy targets for Japanese planes.

What would be the reason to build artificial islands? Are they populated?

We have a steam locomotive being restored here at the Florida Railroad Museum. The trains are not blue.

That makes sense!

Yes, the artificial islands are populated. Kobe is just too crowded and there wasn't enough land, so they literally made more!

That is nice about the steam locomotive restoration, I'm a huge railway enthusiast!

And since we're sharing pictures (or were until they all disappeared), this is me and my dad. He served 35 years in the army and was 2 years from retirement when I joined. This was after the grad parade for my GMT (basic training).