Dan Smith Wise

Since we graduated on June 20, that following Sunday, I took a bus to
Albany and on Monday June 23, I took my oath to join the U.S. Air Force.
I was first assigned to basic training in San Antonio, Texas, followed by a
3 month stay in Wichita Falls, Texas, Sheppard Air Force Base.  I learned
to be a mechanic on the C-130 cargo planes.  From Texas, I got my first
permanent duty assignment to Columbus, Ohio. 

I was able to stay a whole six months to the day at which time I was sent to Taiwan, in support of the Vietnam War.  Although I was never permanently stationed in Vietnam, I was credited with being there for 22 months.  While I was stationed in Taiwan, I met my first wife and my first daughter was born there.  We came back to the good old US of A in October of 1972 where we got stationed in Rome, NY.  We lived there for a long and cold 18 months when we got sent back to the Orient, this time to Okinawa, this is where my second daughter was born.  While there our squadron got transferred to Yokota Japan.  We had an on base apartment which was really nice, when we had breakfast in the morning we could see the highest dead volcano in Japan, what a site to see, the top was covered with snow and then you see green trees and grass. 

We left Japan in July of 1978 and got stationed back in San Antonio, Texas for 11 months.  I was being trained to be an electronic technician on communication equipment.  When I finished school there we proceeded to Washington D.C. to where I worked at the Pentagon for four years.  About 2 and half years there my wife decided it was time to see the states without me. 

I went on alone for about a year, I met my second wife in Maryland and five years after meeting her we got married.  During this time I was sent back to San Antonio to become an instructor in the electronic's field.  I was there for 7 years and really loved it.  I was sent to Berlin, Germany in 1986 for my last  two years in the service where I managed to damage my knee and had to be kept on active duty for an extra year.  I came back to the states in 1989 and was kept on a medical hold for my knee.  I was finally able to retire in July of 1990 and we moved to Huntsville, Alabama where I went to teach printers and software for a company called "Intergraph Corps.".  We lived there for 24 months when we decided we were missing San Antonio too much and decided to move back.  After moving back and searching for a good paying job, I got hired by the US Government to be an instructor for the same electronics position I was doing while I was on active duty in the 80's.  In 1995, my wife decided that she wanted to go live with a sugar daddy she found and once again I was by myself. 

In December of 1996, I moved to Wurtsboro, NY to take care of my mom.  I found a job in Kingston, then got another job working for the government at
Castle Point the VA hospital.  That was a long job, all of 5 months, thanks
to cuts in the budget.  I finally found a job in Callicoon, NY where I was teaching for the US Education, Job Corps, with the inner city kids.  I was there for two years when I got accepted to work at Orange County Community
College in Middletown as a computer tech and an adjunct instructor. During this time I met my current wife on the Internet, yes, it does work sometimes.  We have now been happily married for the past 2 years.

I had gotten my BA degree while I was last stationed and living in San Antonio and currently I am working on my Masters in Education, Introducing Technology to the Classroom.  This course is all on line and no school to go to.  I will be graduating in June of 2005 and then in about 5 years I will be retiring.

So that is the saga of my life, I am sure I have left some boring parts
out, but that is where I have been for the past 35 years.