The Unknown Airman chapter 3

So a new chapter in my life starts when I go into the Air Force. I had a girlfriend that I didn't want to leave behind cause I thought she was the girl of my dreams. Brenda, man... Anyways, I went into the Air Farce when I had to get out of the house and away from the torture abuse from my parents. Who didn't want to understand what was going on with me at the time, I was to just to take a backseat to everything going on around me and do what I was told, according to everybody else. Well guess what, I grew a mind of my own and got out of the heat of the kitchen and into the strange cold cruel world. First, getting into the Air Farce was a major pain in my ass. Getting past the recruiter was the easy part, getting past the availability of the job I was going for and waiting for a slot to open up just to get into basic training, well that in it self took waiting six months, which I had to hang around the house and look for work in the mean time while my dad hounded me the whole time, but with patience I finally got in. I even had to run up & down stairs at the AFEES station in order to make weight in order to get in, what a pain in the ass... So in may of 76, I finally got in and was on my way to independence. I figured I could get out of my house that nobody wanted me in, and learn something and get paid for it at the same time and all it would take is a few years of my time and I wasn't planning on dying anytime soon. So I did 6 weeks of basic training in San Antonio, Texas and got through only with a minimum of trouble and graduated on time with the rest of my class but still had to wait another week at the base before I could get any orders to my school. Because I was getting my dream job and that was an aircraft electrical systems specialist. So after a week in casual as they called it I got to get outta there and go to my next base somewhere near Champagne, Illinois, or better in the town of Rantoul. A quaint little country town. I spent about 5 months there learning how to work on jets and played in the base's Drum & Bugle Team as a special detail while there, which was great, I didn't have to do all of the details that most other people had to do like dorm guard or K.P.. No all I had to do was play a baritone bugle and march in parades. It was 5 months of fun and good times. The schooling was a little rough but I managed to get through it and graduate, THANK GOD!!. From there I got orders to Omaha, Nebraska, which at the time, my geography was terrible and thought I was going overseas or something. But not after I found it on a map and I was damn, it's out in the middle of nowhere and it was no where near California which is where I wanted to be, near my girlfriend, but the air farce wasn't gonna let that happen, so all of the time I spent apart from her drove us apart and there was nothing I could do about it. So I spent almost 5 years there until I got orders to go over to Japan on the island of Okinawa. But before I went there, about six months before I got orders I met my future wife "Nancy" which at that time had already had a baby (Megan Marie)from some other idiot that she had met before me and had gotten her pregnant and dumped her like so many other dead beat daddy's had done in the world. Check this out, some dork by the name of "Bandit", which at the time CB's were a craze and everybody had one in their cars and everybody had a nickname. Mine was "Top Button", little brother's was "Bottom Button" middle brother's was of course had to be different was "Panama Red" and then there was mom and dad's which was "Hush Puppy" &"Chili Dog". Oh the fun times. more to come...
continuing on, I went overseas to Japan and was there for 18 months which was a pretty good time some of the time. The typhoons in the summer time were great cause when they came to town it was a three party, of course everybody had to be in for the storm, but did I party my ass off. I bought my first real guitar there from some guy. A 79, or 80 Fender Stratocaster, black with a bullet neck like Ritchie Blackmore's for $720 bucks. I had to make payments the whole time I was there and it was worth it. My main transportation there was roller skates cause I couldn't afford a bike at the time or get a car. But I did hitch a ride from time to time especially when I needed to go off base for something. While I went to the Philippines, Korea, for assorted reasons. The Philippines was fun and boy did I get laid, well not that much cause I couldn't get away from the "clap" or std's. But I never got laid in Japan cause I was going with by girlfriend at the time "Nancy" and we had been writing. So after Japan I got out and they wanted me to re-up but they didn't want to send me to California so I said screw it cause I was planning on getting married to Nancy and the air farce was trying to screw that up for me too. Which I should just stayed in and over in Japan cause I was having a good time. But that was the thing for to do at the time and I got out and got married, or married with children...