• JOINED THE NAVY OCTOBER 1956: ASSIGNED TO BOOT CAMP AT GREAT LAKES.
• WENT TO HOSPITAL CORPS SCHOOL AT BAINBRIDGE MD AND UPON GRADUATION WAS ASSIGNED TO THE NAVY HOSPITAL BETHESDA MD, WORKED ON NEROSURGICAL WARD SEVERAL MONTHS UNTIL I WAS ASSIGNED AS COLLECTION AGENT OF BETHESDA NAVAL HOSPITAL.
• NEXT TRANSFER I REPORTED TO THE NAVAL STATION PEARL HARBOR.
• REENLISTED 9/15/1960 AS A HM2.
• LEFT PEARL HARBOR 1961 REPORTED TO NAVAL RECRUITING STATION NEW YORK CITY NEW YORK, AND PROMOTED TO HM1.
• AFTER 6 WEEKS I WAS TRANSFERRED TO NEWARK NJ AFES WHERE I WAS IN CHARGE OF THE MEDICAL SECTION.
• IN 1966 I WAS TRANSFERRED TO USN HOSPITAL PORTSMOTH VA AS A STUDENT IN ADVANCED HOSPITAL CORPS SCHOOL AND UPON GRADUATION ON 15 JULY1966 WAS ASSIGNED TO AND REPORTED TO THE USS MISPILLION AO105 IN BOSTON MASS DOING PHYSICALS. ALL SERVICES.

Jack with his son

• LATER THAT YEAR THE SHIP DEPARTED FOR THE PACIFIC FLEET UNDER THE COMMAND OF CAPTAIN JOHN S. OLLER. REFULED SHIPS IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEA IN THE VIET NAM ERA.
• ON 30 APRIL 1967 I WAS TRANSFERRED TO THE USS ENERGY MSO 436. WHICH WAS IN NEED FOR A CORPSMAN (THERE WAS 4 HM’S ON THE MISIPPILION).
• IN JULY 1968 I DECIDED THE NAVY WAS NOT FOR ME AND I WENT BACK TO NEW JERSEY.
• HOWEVER, I FOUND IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE TO GET A CIVILIAN JOB SO I REENLISTED ON 10 SEPT 68 RECRUITING STATION NY NY AND WENT TO BROOKLYN NY NAVY STATION FOR FURTHER TRANSFER TO FLEET MARINE FORCE MC BASE CAMP LEJEUNE NC AS A STUDENT.
• UPON GRADUATION I WAS Assigned to H&S COMPANY 1STBN 8TH MARINES 2N MARINE DIVISION FLEET MARINE FORCE CAMP LEJEUNE NORTH CAROLINA.
• ON 6 DEC 1968 I WAS PROMOTED TO CHIEF HOSPITAL CORPSMAN.
• ON 26 JUNE 1969 I WAS TRANSFERRED TO DISPENSARY NAVY DEPARTMENT WASHINGTON DC WHICH WAS RENAMED TO NAVAL REGINAL MEDICAL CLINIC WDC.
• ON 29 JANUARY 1974 TRANSFERRED TO FORCE TROOPS FLEET MARINE FORCE ATLANTIC CAMP LEUEUNE NC 2ND MARINE DIVISION ASSIGNED TO 2ND TANKS.
• ON 7 JUNE 1976 I RETIRED FROM THE SERVICE PROUDLY SERVING MY 20 YEARS. I LABORED AS A CIVILIAN WORKING FOR SOUTHERN UNIFORM RENTALS AS CREDIT MANAGER UNTIL 20 JAN 2003, I RETIRED. ALONG WITH MY WIFE (SHE NEVER MADE IT OUT OF SECOND GRADE 20 YEARS ) JUNE 2003 SHE RETIRED FROM
  ONSLOW COUNTY SCHOOLS NC. SHE WAS KILLED ON 14 SEPTEMBER 2004.
• WE HAVE THREE CHILDREN 4 GRAND CHILDREN AND ONE GREAT GRAND SON